House of Faith Ministries (HoFM) is an online ministry providing Holy Spirit revelation of the Word of God. Mission Statement To live the reality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in such a manner that: Death to the things of this world in our lives will be obvious to all, while we proclaim the life of Jesus Christ to every corner of the world; Beginning with the very corners of our world. Purpose To be found worthy of His calling at His soon return. Motto For He that promised is faithful. Luke 18:8 Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. Greetings in the name of Jesus our redeemer. My name is Marcos Marrero, and this is what I believe: I believe that we ought to always thank God for sending Jesus, his only begotten Son to die for our sins. I believe that we ought to praise God always, for He did not leave his only begotten Son hanging on the cross or inside the grave. We ought to worship Him! The creator of the heavens and the earth, who raised Jesus from the dead, and has given Him a name that is above every name. Philippians 2:9-11 "Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." It is my intention for this web page to make this proclamation: The Word of God is the only TRUTH! Jesus, the messiah of Israel is the revelation of God's TRUTH! The Holy Spirit sanctifies every human who believes the TRUTH, as presented in the gospel of Jesus Christ. II Thessalonians 2:13-14 "But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." I boldly proclaim that the same Jesus that was taken up to heaven and is now seated at the right hand of God the Father, creator of heaven and earth. Will soon return to this earth to set up His kingdom. I boldly proclaim that this same Jesus will judge both the living and the dead. Those who believe God's TRUTH as presented in the gospel of Jesus Christ will be rewarded with the crown of life, and will forever be with the Lord. But those who reject the TRUTH of the gospel of Jesus Christ will be dammed for eternity. II Thessalonians 2:12 "That they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." I also believe that God will hold every believer accountable who does not strive to have the work of faith with power in their lives. II Thessalonians 1:11 "Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power." It is the demonstration of God's power through faith in the TRUTH of the Word of God, that will convict sinners of their error and cause them to cry out for our God's salvation. Luke 5:8 "When Simon Peter saw it, (the demonstration of God's miracle working power) he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying 'depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord!'" It is my desire to present to you in this web page the gospel of Jesus Christ in its true form. Free from the contamination of human fallacies. Knowing, even as I am writing this, that Jesus will hold me accountable for everything that I will be teaching here. James 3:1 "Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly." Lord Jesus! I dedicate this web page to you. I pray for your anointing and guidance. Let those who read its contents be led by your precious Holy Spirit to receive the promises of your abundant life. Amen. House of Faith Ministries (HoFM)

LYDIA - WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP To examine the biblical account of Lydia as a model for women in leadership, demonstrating how God equips and uses women for ministry, business, and hospitality in the early church, and to explore the broader transformation of women’s roles in light of Christ’s redemption and New Testament teaching. LYDIA - WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP Minister Lisa Kane June 27, 2024 Objective: To examine the biblical account of Lydia as a model for women in leadership, demonstrating how God equips and uses women for ministry, business, and hospitality in the early church, and to explore the broader transformation of women’s roles in light of Christ’s redemption and New Testament teaching. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane continues her series on Women in the Bible by focusing on Lydia, a successful businesswoman and devout worshiper of God introduced in Acts 16. The message begins with prayer, inviting God’s presence and guidance, then connects Lydia’s story with Jesus’ declaration in Luke 19:40 that even stones would cry out if His followers were silent—emphasizing that God uses whomever He wills, including women, to carry His word forward. The teaching outlines Lydia’s conversion under Paul’s ministry, her baptism with her household, and her role in hosting and supporting the apostles, providing a home large enough for gatherings that likely became the foundation of the church in Thyatira. Lisa highlights Lydia’s independence, her financial success in the trade of purple cloth, and her courage in housing Paul and Silas after their release from prison. The message then ties Lydia’s leadership to Revelation 2, where the church in Thyatira is addressed, underscoring both commendations for faith and love, and warnings against false teaching (symbolized by Jezebel). Lisa stresses the importance of discerning truth from false doctrine, walking in forgiveness, and relying on the power of the cross for healing and freedom from sickness. Finally, the teaching broadens the discussion to the transformation brought through Christ’s resurrection. By citing John 20 and Romans 8, Lisa emphasizes that believers—male and female—are no longer “lower than angels” but joint heirs with Christ, empowered to minister in His name. While affirming the biblical pattern of pastoral leadership through husbands and wives together, she reminds women not to discount themselves, since God uses anyone willing to serve Him. The message concludes with encouragement to hold fast to true doctrine, walk in forgiveness, and live in the authority of Christ’s redemption, bringing glory to God. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this on Thursday, June 27th, 20124. Welcome. Let us open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the power and the authority of your name and your presence, Father God. And we thank you for making mighty men and women of God who have served you who has spoken your word and shared your word throughout all the generations and to the world. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Prepare our hearts and minds as you work in us to do the same and to follow in the footsteps of your son Jesus. Thank you. and by the powerful mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Welcome. I'm in uh a series called Women in the Bible. I've been doing this now for a handful of weeks. I will continue to do it. There are a lot of women in the Bible. Now, I'm not going in any particular order. No, I'm just letting the Holy Spirit direct me. And it was interesting the last I attend a Bible study on Tuesday nights and Wednesday nights. And uh both Bible studies were talking about the uh women's role in leadership in the church. And uh so here I've been in the women of the Bible series and for whatever reason I kept waking up and it was like the Lord kept telling me speak about Lydia, Lydia, Lydia. So I went and did some homework. And so we're going to be talking about women in the Bible and we're going to be talking focusing on Lydia, women in leadership. That's the title of this message. So let's go to this opening scripture. Luke 19:40. And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that if these should hold their peace or refuse to speak, the stones would immediately cry out, croak, scream, cry out. Now let me explain why I'm using this scripture for opening. I want the purpose of this particular teaching is to show you establish parameters in the past and the transformation of those parameters in the present time in scripture. So this is going to be really really neat. Now the reason I bring this scripture up and this scripture here talking about the stones would cry out. This is when this is Palm Sunday. Jesus is riding on a colt and they're laying down their clothes and palm frrons and all that and they are shouting praise to Jesus and the the Pharisees and the Sadducees are telling Jesus, "You need to tell these people to stop." And Jesus Jesus is the one who's talking. He's the one who says if they hold their peace and the stones would immediately cry out. In other words, God is going to use anyone and anything to speak to us. This is why he uses the stars to speak to us. See, he shows us in the different ways of how he can communicate with us. That is very important. And I want you to see that and I want you to understand that. So, we're going to be talking about Lydia and I'm going to be bringing you through a little bit of history through the word to show you how the transformation takes with what Jesus did through dying on the cross, rising from the grave, and redeeming us. Amen. So we're going to start here in Acts. Acts 16:14 and 15. And a certain woman named Lydia, seller of purple, a female traitor in purple cloth of the city Thotira, which worshiped, revered, adored God. And by the way, just to pause for a moment, when you see the scripture on the screen, and there's a bolded word with parentheses afterwards, the bolded word is the original text it was written in. The parentheses are other words that the author could have translated or the translators that uh translated the Bible into English and so forth, they could have used these other words to translate with. So, I'm just adding those extra words in because it gives us a bigger picture what we're looking at in scripture. So, anyways, uh which worship revered, adored God, heard us, whose heart, which is our thoughts or feelings, the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And when she was baptized or fully wet and her household, so her and her household were fully wet, she besought us, saying, "If ye have judged or distinguished, decide me to be faithful, trustworthy to the Lord, come into my house and abide, stay there." And she constrained or compelled us. So this is very interesting. So we have a woman of God. She became a believer. Uh she um heard the word taught to her by Paul. She's a successful businesswoman because she trades in purple cloth. Now, understand this. She's the one dying the cloth. She's got her team of workers. Purple cloth can only be afforded by the rich. So she had a very expensive commodity and was selling to the rich, meaning she was well off providing purple commodity or purple cloth and that expensive commodity. She knew how to run her business. She had been doing it fine and she was organized and successful. A successful businesswoman in the time of that Paul lived. Now I want you to see something here. When Paul brings other people up in the ministry that he's in and where he's at and what he's doing, he's always mentioning uh usually the male and sometimes the wife's name and only depends of how much of the role she's in. So like Priscilla and Aquilla, he worked with that couple. He mentioned both their names. So they were both heavily involved with Paul in the ministry. Well, here he mentions Lydia but no husband. I don't think she had a husband. And in fact, because she deals in purple cloth, she doesn't have a husband in another who had to take care of her in another job. So, she had to have a job in order to be successful. We don't know any other history about her. We just know that she is a successful businesswoman ministering or re um selling to the rich, which means she has money. She's she's got enough. So she has a large enough home where she can accommodate Paul and those with him. Now when you read the rest of that chapter in Acts, we're going to read the last verse here in just a moment. You will see that this is the time where Paul and Silas went to prison and they were worshiping the Lord and the prison cell shook. All the walls fell and the centurion thought he was they were all gone. He was going to kill himself. And Paul said, "Hey, no, no, no. We're right here. Don't don't do that." Well, the next day Paul and Silas were released. Then if we in fact let's go to verse 40 because I want you to see that um that when she they were released look who they went to says and they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia and when they had seen the brethren they comforted her consolation exor prayed them and departed. So they went to Lydia's house. So, she has this successful business where she affords a big enough home to accommodate Paul and Silas and whomever else is there with him. Uh, and and let me point out another thing here. She wasn't afraid to have prisoners or ex-prisoners in her home. She had Paul and Silas in her home who just came out of being in jail. So here she's a very interesting woman, a very interesting businesswoman, one who has her heart on God. Now she lived in a city called Thotira. Don't know if I'm saying that right or not, but I'm going to run with it. And it's believed that she started the church of Thotira. So there is a letter written by Jesus in revelation that John wrote on behalf of Jesus to the le to the church of the doterans. So let's go look at that letter because now I want you to see something that's going to help us understand the role of a woman in the church. By the way, the role of the man in the church as well because you're going to see what Jesus is pointing out. This applies to everybody. Male, female, uh, Jew, Gentile, free, slave, black, white, Asian, Indian, doesn't matter. It applies to everybody. So, let's go to Revelation 2. We're going to be reading verses 18 through 29. And unto the angel or messenger of the church, by the way, a church is a calling out, a meeting, a congregation. So in other words, her home was big enough where people could come to it because that's how they established churches in those days. They were in people's homes. So she had a good amount of people showing up to church in her home in Thotir. So he's talking to the church of Thotir, right? These things sayeth the son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass. I know thy works and charity. That word charity means love, affection, benevolence, and your service or attendance. And your faith, that faith is persuasion, credence, reliance on Christ, and thy patience, which is cheerful endurance, and thy works, and the last to be more than the first. So, pause here for a moment. Jesus is saying, I know all the good things you've been doing. Excellent. Thank you. Those are good. Then let's see what else he has to say. Because no church, no person is perfect. We have to rely on forgiveness with each other and with each church. We have to move in forgiveness to stop the fruit of the evil that is going on from prospering. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. How do you stop it from prospering? You forgive something and it just stops it right in its tracks. So, you're going to see what Jesus is going to point out here now in verse 20. Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee. Uhoh. See, there's always something. If you think you've made it, think again. Because you haven't. Jesus points out, "Ah, you got something else to work on. There always will be something else to do. Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee. Because thou sufferest, or you let be that woman, by the way, that woman is a specifically a wife person, Jezebel, which is a false teacher, which calleth herself a prophetus or a female foreteller, to teach, and to seduce, roam astray, my servants, to commit fornication, to act the harlot, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. I'm going to pause here for just a moment. I want you to see something here. This church is allowing a false teaching in here. Keep that in mind. We're going to get to this in just a little bit more. I give her space. I gave her space, time to repent, think differently, reconsider of her fornication, and she repented not. Okay? I want you to see something here with this false teaching. So, there's good teaching and there's false teaching. So, you got people that are in the word and you got people who are not in the word. I'm going to show you that here. Let's go to the next set of scriptures. Verse 22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, a couch, bed for sickness, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, which is affliction, burden, pressure, except they repent of their deeds. In other words, I'll stop doing it if they just repent. But I'm going to put them in their sick bed. Verse 23. And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the res, the kidney, the inmost mind, and hearts. the thoughts or feelings and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. Okay? In the church today and in the past, you had people who got sick and died prematurely. And you have people that don't. There's many people who live to be old. There's many people who die prematurely. Now, why this scripture answers that if you can believe that he Jesus is saying, "Listen, I'm going to put you in your sick bed until you repent. If you go read my prayers in the empowering prayer under houseof faith ministries.org, you will find that those that are blaspheing the Lord, even though I forgive them and I ask the Lord to forgive them and I'm hoping to give them another chance to repent, but if they continue not to repent, I ask the Lord to put them in their sick bed. That's scriptural. That's what he does. He's telling us straight up he does this. So, if there's somebody in the church that has cancer, for example, they're believing in some sort of false teaching and they don't even know it's a false teaching. They don't. That's scary. But the you've got, let's say, Lydia who became a believer in Christ and knew what to do and was able to established the church. Now, keep in mind as the stat the church grew and she got older and eventually passed away, men took over the church because that's what had happened. Men became the dominant pastors. And keep in mind that Paul, Peter, James, Timothy, they were provided instruction on how to establish the office of pastor, the office of elders. And it always talked about pastor being married with his wife and their children under control. It talked about the elders the same principle where their household was in order with God. All of them were following God. And that's how you became a pastor or an elder. Now a pastor is someone who has to meet the needs of every individual in his church. So these mega churches, those pastors can't do it. So what they're doing is they're they're farming it out to others. That's not right. You're the pastor, not others. And maybe what you should do is make more pastors and split the church up into different congregations everywhere. And that those pastors will minister to th that little bit of congregation there. That way you're following scripture. Now, because they're talking about a role of a husband and a wife, and we know that Christ is head of the church, and husband is head of the church, we know that a pastor has to be a male. We know that because that is the established parameters. But keep in mind, look at Lydia here. She's a founder of a church. She had no husband. And yet, look at how much the Lord blessed her. God can use anyone. If he can use the rocks, he can use women, too. So, women, don't you give up. You stand strong because it's by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, by the fruit, that they're going to see your ministry. And they will know by your fruit who you are with Christ, not contaminated by false teaching. Because if you're always sick, you're, you know, when we moved out here to Missouri that first year, which we just had our yearly anniversary a few weeks ago, I we were sick. I think five or six times I finally went to the elders of this new church we're attending and I said, "I need you to pray over me," which is scriptural. See, I'm going back to the scripture. I'm not believing in whatever false teaching. And I believed it was an attack against me for doing what we did with the Lord because he opened the doors to do this for us. And next thing you know, I was fine. I haven't been sick since. You know what? I praise God and give him the glory and I'm taking holy communion regularly. This is awesome. That's how God works. That is how God works. Amen. Amen. Let's continue on to verse 24. But unto you, I say, and unto the rest, as many as have not this doctrine and instruction, and which have not known the depths of Satan, the accuser. And see, there's one clear um item that you can see in the church is the accuser. Who is the accuser? the devil. How many people want to get up and co gossip men and women alike in saying something in the way of did you see so and so? That's a form of accusation. He just took up the devil's role for him. He don't even have to do anything. You did it for him. By the way, that's false doctrine that you're walking in. And if you're wondering why you're sick, it could be your mouth that's in trouble. What is it that you need to do? Repent. Remember Jesus forgave you. Ask you forgive yourself. Go back to the power of the cross. What Jesus did because he forgave everybody on the cross by dying on the cross, redeeming us, raising from the dead. Then you go and take holy communion and that's going to remove your sickness and you won't be sick anymore. So if you, this is a tailtale sign. If you are walking in some sort of sickness on a regular ba basis, go back to the cross. The power of the cross. Amen. as they speak, lay forth. I will put upon you none other burden, weight, or load. So mean, if you're not following the accuser, you're not following, you're you're actually well and doing good, you're in the ministry and all's looking good, the Lord is not going to put on you any other burden. You won't be burdened anymore. So those that have a heavy burden, there's another tail sign. These are things that the Lord is showing you. I need you to get out of that doctrine. I'm putting this pressure on you so that you can realize what's happening so I can teach you to be right and get out of that. Amen. That's what Jesus is doing. Verse 25, but that which you have already hold fast seize retain till I come. He says, hold on to what you got. You're not sick. You're walking in goodness. You're walking in right. That's because you are going to God. Yes, you're walking in righteousness. Yes, you're walking in the word. You're looking at the word. You're living by the word and not by false doctrine. And because of such he tells you, hold on to it till I come. And he that overcomemeth and keepeth my works which were keepest to watch and guard it my works until the end. To him will I give power over the nations. And we're not done. He said, "And he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers, even as I received of my father. and I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches. Tailtale signs here, my friends. Tailtale signs. These are signs that tell you whether you are walking correctly in the church. It has to be scriptural. This is why I don't believe personally that a woman should be a pastor. It needs to be a husband and a wife. But if the husband was a pastor and he has gone home to be with the Lord and the wife has left, she has every right and every authority to take the role of pastorship at that point and then she can divvy it out or she can just be there with the Lord and let the anointing be upon her because she should be equal with her husband because they both were in ministry unto the Lord and she followed the direction of her husband and through Christ. So she should have the knowledge there. You see how this works? depending on the circumstance and the history and where it's at. That is the power that we see God use in people in ministry. Amen. Now, to show you the transformation of things from old to new. This is why women don't count yourself out because you are a big important part of this. I'm going to go to Psalm 8 and four. uh 84 and5 What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him? For thou has made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor. Now look at this with the extra words. What is mortal that you're you remember you mention him by the way the word mindful means also full of mind. He's f God is fully con thinking of man of you and I at all times. He knows how much hair we have on our body at any given moment in time. He is so mindful of us. He says and you visit him, you care for him, you avenge him, you bestow him, you oversee him. You made him a little lower than the angels. And these this word angels is gods on the ordinary sense difference and has crowned you encircled to protect from attack him with glory and honor. This is how we're established. Okay? A little lower than the angels. But I want you to see something very very important of what Jesus did. Watch this. I just taught on this recently. John 20:16-1 17. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself and saith unto him, Raboni, which is the same master. She's at the tomb. And she sees that Jesus is not there. And so Jesus is now revealing himself, "Hey, Mary, this is me. I'm right here." And then he says this. Jesus saith unto her, "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my father, but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your father, and to my God and your God." Do you see what just happened here? We're made a little lower than the angels, but Jesus is the son of God. Jesus is telling Mary and Magdalene here, "Hey, I'm going up." And by the way, check this out. He just rose from the grave. He's got a billion souls behind him that he took out of paradise. He's on his way to his father and he stops. We can make this very comical. Everybody bumping back like, "Whoa, why did Jesus just stop? We're going to the father." And Jesus stops to talk to Mary Magdalene, a woman. He stops everything he's doing to talk to her, to share this most important thing. We're no longer a little lower than the angels. Jesus, his father, is our father. Do you see that? He says, "My father, your father, my God, your God." Oh, something changed. Something changes. Go to Romans 8:14. For as many as as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. You see, we're no longer a little lower than the angels, my friend. A change from history to Jesus took place where now man is with Christ. Now understand this. Yes, we're still in our flesh. So the flesh isn't there yet, but our spirit which has died to this flesh is up there with Christ standing next to Christ as joint hes right before our heavenly father. Oh, let's look at this. For ye have not received to take the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, the whereby we cry, aba, father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children then hes of God and joint hes with Christ. So if so be that we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. Oh hallelujah. I hope you guys are seeing this. We're no longer under the angels. We're next to Christ. Which means when he says go into all the world and preach the good news, who is he talking to? male, female, Jew, Gentile, free, slave, Greek, black, white, Asian, Indian, whoever you are, male, female, whoever you are, you're called to ministry. Look at me. I'm not a pastor, but I am called to teach and preach the word of God. And those that catch this, by the way, continue to watch because they know by the fruit and the manifestation of what's being taught to them and how it grows in them. That is what the calling is. I don't have to be a pastor of a church to teach. Pastors do teach, but really they have the office to minister to their their congregation. If a person in the church gets into the uh the emergency room, they go they go there to be with them. They're praying with them, but they're to keep the church on the doctrine of the word of God and not allow false doctrine in to pray with them and get them back right at the power of the cross. That's the role of a pastor. And he has to do it with his wife because the two work in tandem because they are completed in an image of God. We are created in his image. male and female. I taught that when I talked about Eve. So now, even though I believe that women can't be pastors or elders do the requirements established by Paul and Peter and them in scripture, I believe women are joint hes in the church with Christ just as much as men. And if men falter or fail or they go home to be with the Lord, then God will use woman or whomever is ready and willing that is listening to him speak. I hope you get this. Hallelujah. Be ready. This means you need to get back to the power of the cross. Remember the redemption. This do in remembrance of me. Take your holy communion. If you think you've been too sinful, ask God to forgive you. He will forgive you. And ask him and then say, "Lord, I forgive myself." You see, once you let go and realize the sinner and the wretched, decrepit person that you were, you got to let that go and move forward in the calling of the spirit of God in your spirit. So his spirit will rise in you and you transform, change, you renew your mind. You think differently. You turn back and say, "Wait a minute." But the word of God says, "I'm not supposed to be sick. Why am I sick?" So you begin to follow what scripture tells you. You look at James 5. You go get prayed over by the elders. You forgive yourself. You forgive those around you. Forgive you the history of your genealogies. You forgive your children, your your grandchildren. You forgive them all. You walk in the spirit of forgiveness. And once you do that, God has forgiven you. You are forgiven. Sickness must flee because Christ is rising up in you. And sin and Christ don't mix. Diseases, sickness, and Christ don't mix. They both cannot reside in your body. And if they are, you're in a church that where you're sick and you've been told you you have cancer or this or that. Well, guess what? That's when you say, "Nope. I believe in the true word of God. And if I messed up here, Lord, forgive me. I'm going to I want to get right with you. How do I do it?" And the first thing you do is you ask for forgiveness. You get in your word. You spend time with the Lord. and you begin to find out what the Bible says, not what others say, what the Bible says, because now you get back on the right track with God. Amen. That's how it's done, my friend. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the revelation. And I pray that the enemy does not take this word out of our hearts or minds. That we do not forget the power and the authority of your word, but that we apply it to our lives. that we get right back in right standing with you, Father God. And I thank you for showing us women that we can be more with you and that we know that your Holy Spirit can work through us. We can pray for the sick. We can minister online. We can minister at Bible studies. Father God, thank you. Help us be stronger in your word. And Lord, push us aside and let your Holy Spirit manifest within us, within the woman and within the man, so that we're serving you, giving you all the glory because you are King of glory. Hallelujah, Father God. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Next week is Fourth of July on Thursday. I'm going to take the entire week off and enjoy my vacation week. So, there will not be a teaching next week, but will resume the following week. God bless you, and I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 1 Equip believers to approach Revelation with faith and clarity—free of preconceived notions—by outlining a simple framework (timeline + dual realms) that shows how God’s activity in the spiritual realm drives events on earth, so the church can persevere, stay loyal to Jesus and His Word, and be ready for Christ’s return. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 1 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 3, 2009 Objective: Equip believers to approach Revelation with faith and clarity—free of preconceived notions—by outlining a simple framework (timeline + dual realms) that shows how God’s activity in the spiritual realm drives events on earth, so the church can persevere, stay loyal to Jesus and His Word, and be ready for Christ’s return. Synopsis: Opening in worship and prayer, the message declares trust in God and asserts that we stand on the threshold of “great wonders.” Revelation 1:1–3 frames the study: there is a promised blessing for those who read, hear, and keep its words. The teacher argues Revelation isn’t inherently difficult; it becomes clear when we (1) let go of rigid, inherited interpretations, (2) read the whole Bible’s storyline, and (3) recognize that Revelation alternates between two synchronized perspectives—what happens on earth (physical) and what happens in heaven (spiritual). Like Job’s story, unseen heavenly decisions produce visible earthly outcomes; building a timeline helps align the two. Revelation 1 introduces Jesus—the glorified Son of Man—whose radiant presence underscores His deity and lordship over history. The book’s theme is His coming: first in the clouds to gather and judge, then in glory to reign for a thousand years. The message situates Revelation within God’s dispensational dealings (innocence, conscience, human government, promise, law, grace), noting that final judgments will address three arenas: the nations, Israel, and the church. Historical touchpoints (e.g., Israel’s restoration and the church’s renewal) signal we are in the final generation. Chapters 2–3 provide the church-age timeline through seven churches, with special focus on the last two as models for today. Philadelphia is commended for holding fast to Jesus’ name and Word despite weakness; such faithfulness is promised protection “from the hour of trial” coming on the whole world. Laodicea, by contrast, is lukewarm, self-sufficient, and spiritually blind; Jesus lovingly rebukes, calls for repentance, and stands knocking, urging renewed fellowship. Trials refine faith like gold; believers are exhorted to persevere, reject compromise, and keep their hope fixed on Christ. The message closes in prayer, asking God to ready His people, deepen their love and holiness, and make them bold witnesses so many will embrace the truth and be prepared for the Lord’s day. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: My trust is in you, oh my God. My trust is in you. Praise God. I really felt the anointing tonight. I was worshiping. Praise God. Thank you, Lord. Did you know that we're on the threshold of seeing great wonders take place? I think that once this u door is open, we will look back in in the days like today and say, "Wow, what a different world it is from what it is now to what it is then. Hallelujah. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we thank you for tonight. As we begin this uh lesson, Father God, and in the book of Revelation, I pray that you would uh grant us ears to hear. Open our spiritual ears, Father God. And open our minds and our heart that we may receive and understand, not just be hearers of the word, but doers, Father God. And I pray, Father, in the name of Jesus, that uh you will give us the ability, Father God, to to be encouraged and strengthened by the fact that your word is true, Father God, that as we come to this final book of the Bible where all of the loose ends are tied in and where everything makes sense and comes together, Father God, that our faith may grow stronger and bolder, Father God, that we may prepare, Father God, for the events that are soon coming upon this world in which we're living in. And that like Paul says that they will not catch us as those who sleep. He said those who sleep, they get drunk at night, but that we may be wide awake, Father God, and ready for the great wonders that you said that you promised that you would do in the last days. Thank you now for this opportunity to teach your word and thank you, Father God, for we open our hearts to receive it in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Praise God. I don't want to stop worshiping. I was enjoying it. Praise God. In uh Revelation chapter 1 verse one, we read the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him Jesus to show his servants things which must shortly take place. And he sent and signified it by his sen to his servant John who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ to all things that he saw. And then this is the part I want you to pay attention. Verse three, blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the time is near. There is a blessing. This is the only uh book of the Bible that I know of where specific blessing is given to the people that read it. The reason why is because the Bible says it is true knowledge that the righteous is delivered. Knowing uh what's going on when things began to happen can make the difference between life and death. And so we have a great blessing that comes um uh through reading the book of Revelation. Now the book of revelation it is hard to understand simply because we have made it hard. We we need to understand that we have made the book of revelation hard to understand because um when you are looking at something that you don't know what it says and you have to understand the prophecy that was given in the old time. uh in order for us to understand them, we have to get closer and closer to the events. In other words, the closer we get to the end time, the more the things are going to make sense. So, the people that live centuries before us who didn't have the revelations and and the ability to know the things that we know now uh uh deal with what they knew, how they knew it. And the problem with that is that uh when a new revelation comes in, if your mind is set in an old way, you're not going to receive it. And so it is easier to teach the book of Revelation to somebody that doesn't have an opinion on it than it is to somebody that already has it on his mind. I struggled this for years. If you get the book, I I have a testimony there at the beginning of how uh I came in into having to put away all of the old things that I had learned about the book of Revelation and allow God actually empty my mind and says, "Okay, Lord, you show me." Because if he come with any preconceived notions, you're you're going to miss it. And this is how my mind was open uh to receive the revelation. Now let me give you a few points before we get into a few of the details. In order to understand the book of revelation is not hard. It's just it it is the the closing chapter of the Bible as if it were. So in order to fully understand the the book of revelation, you have to understand what the Bible is about. You know, for those of you back in the 70s when you had the book Roots that came out and it was like a series, you know, or now like they have Rocky four or Rocky five or Rocky six. You go see one of those movies and you miss the first three or four, you miss half of the movie because you you didn't connect to the other part. So that's that's the idea of the book of Revelation. You need to understand that from Genesis all the way to um third John and Jude before you get to Revelation everything there is going to come together and make sense. And so we need to have a general knowledge of of what happened on the past. Now the second thing that you need to understand that will make this this will make all of the difference on the world to understand in the book of revelation is that the book of revelation is giving us the description of things that are taking place in two different dimensions at the same time. This is very important we get this. If we get the basic we'll understand it. Now, if you see a movie, for example, the movie Pearl Harbor, and and the screen plate is is is writing as to what's happening in Pearl Harbor, but at the same time, they're telling you what's happening in Tokyo and what's happening in Washington. Now, we cannot be in three places at the same time. So if you're going to watch a movie about an event that's taking place in different places, the screenplay writer, what he will do, he will focus on one area first and then he'll make it to know in a way that when he goes to another scene, they let you know that it's taking place at the same time of what you just saw. In other words, so you can see what was taking place here and what was taking place there at the same time. But since we're human and we're limited to just one scope at a time and that's how we you need to uh that's how we need to understand the book of revelation. God is given us what is taking place on the earth. So he's given us a physical revelation but at the same time he's given us what is taking place in the spiritual realm and this is a spiritual revelation. So once you understand that things happen in the spirit and then when things happen in the spirit they have a consequence or a result that takes place here on the earth then you'll see that the book of revelation makes all perfect sense because God is letting you know what's happening over here is because of what's happening over there. A great way to understand the book of revelation is by reading the first chapter of the book of Job. Job, for example, is happy. He has uh 10 children. He's he's wealthy and everything. And then the book starts by saying that one day the sons of God went to the presence of God. And Satan showed up and a discussion took place between Satan and God. And they were discussing Job and his life. Now Job is here on earth and he has hasn't got a famous idea what's happening in heaven right but what happened in heaven had a direct effect upon Job because God said okay you can take away his property and what happened all of the sudden thieves come in and still whirlwind comes in all kinds of things is happening so you see this is how the book of revelation it is written God is giving us a revelation of what's happened what's happening on the um on on the spiritual and then we see the consequences or the result of what's taking place in the spiritual and the physical. So the key to understanding the book of revelation is that the revelation is twofold. We are given the things that are happening at the same time in two different dimensions. Now, so how do we understand it? And and if you got the book, I got it uh there. But the way the revelation, the Lord gave me the revelation is in order for you to understand things that are taking place at the same time, you need to make a timeline. In other words, I need to know because I need to uh uh align it together. When was it that Job lost uh uh all of his good? That's when God said to Satan, "Okay, you can you can take his goods." Then Satan goes back to God and God says, "Well, what did I tell you? You took away all of his goods and and and he didn't deny me." And then he said, "Well, you can take his children." And then they come in take his children. And then after that, Satan said, "Well, skin for skin, you know, I mean, he he's after his own flesh." So he says okay you can't attack his flesh but you can't take his life. So you see you can make a timeline of the things that happened to Job in accordance to what was happening in heaven. So we need to make a timeline. We need to understand how the book of revelation gives us a timeline. How do you make a timeline? Through a chronology of events. So basically if I can understand because I am a physical person. I live in a physical realm. If I can understand the physical chronology of events that are taking place and I can align it with the spiritual chronology, then I can make sense of things. You see, this is when the the book of Revelation will come alive to you when you're able to connect them together. Now, as we begin, uh the book of Revelation begins with an introduction. And the introduction goes from verse one to verse 7. We read the first three talking about Jesus. Then John says that um uh that he's writing this letter to the seven churches which are in Asia. That's on verse four. And he blesses them. He says, "Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come in from the seven spirits who are before his throne and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and has made us kings and priests to his God and father. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. These six verses compile the whole history of the Bible. Notice that it said from him who is, who was, and is to come. That's God. And from the seven spirits, that's the seven dispensation that have been covered by God. And then from Jesus Christ, the faithful one, the one who washed us by his blood and made us king and priest. So this is a a a the sixth verses is talking about the six,000 years. This is this is very important because we're dealing with timeline. Remember, we need a chronology of physical events that we understand. So we can align it with the spiritual chronology. Why? Because when we make the proper alignment, we'll know according to the book of Revelation, where are we living in? What part of the book of Revelation are we in today? That is what makes us blessed. That's what gets us ready. And we're going to find that out because we're going to follow it a step by step by how it does. Now, not notice, and this is the key. Seven is always the day of rest. As you know, there are uh uh 6,000 years, six days of work. And then on the seventh year, we enter into the kingdom rest, which is what the book of Revelation will focus on, entering into the day of rest or the thousand years reign of Christ. If you read at the end, I think it's chapter 21 or 22. Six times, the writer says, "And he will rule for 1,000 years." There's going to be a 1,000 years rule. And we're going to be with Jesus with our race, physical body. Notice how it says there, the first born from the dead. Why would Jesus be called the first born from the dead? Jesus is different than everybody else in the fact that Jesus already has his glorified body. We are kings and priests with him. We're sitting together right now with him in heavenly places, but our physical body is still here on the earth and it's still corrupted and it's still uh uh frail and it still fails. But when Jesus Christ blows that trumpet and we're resurrected, we're going to be like him. When we see him, we're going to be like, we're going to get a new body. He's the firstborn from the dead. Meaning, he has the first human physical body that has been transformed. And it doesn't run on blood anymore. The kingdom of God doesn't have flesh and blood, but he has flesh and bones. Because Jesus said when he rose, he said, "Touch me and fill me." You see that I'm not a ghost. I got flesh and bones. But he had no blood. his blood which is where the life was offered in the throne in the holy of holies in heaven and that is a guaranteed of a new life for us before God because the blood was poured on the mercy seat and the mercy seat was above the law of God and the law says all the sinner shall surely die so the blood covers that now our life is guaranteed by the very blood of Jesus this is why once you're born again you're already guaranteed in God that you're there we're not there yet he's coming he's going to transform But that is the blessed hope or the Bible calls it. And notice that that comes in at the end of the sixth day and into the seventh day. Now notice verse seven. Now I don't deal with this in the book because in the book I'm dealing with the framework. But here I got the freedom to to set things up better. In verse seven, this is what the book of Revelation is about. Behold, he is coming with clouds, and every eye will see him, even they who pierce him, and all of the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Even so, amen. The theme of the book at the beginning is Jesus's coming. And you'll see that he comes first in the air or the clowns at the beginning of this seven-year period and then he'll come at the end on a white horse. And then that's when he will take over rulership over the earth and he'll rule it for a thousand years. But for seven years he's going to judge three basic uh entities of people. When see everything God created is in seven. We need to understand that seven is always rest and in the beginning. When God created Adam and Eve, they were created and this is all in the book. When you read it, if you have it, you'll see it. When God created Adam and Eve, they were on the state of what is called innocence. Innocent. They were like children. We're we're all like that. When you're a kid, you're a child, you run around naked, you don't know. You're innocent. you have no concept uh a self-concept of of shame or guilt or anything else. Then when they parttook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they became self-conscious or selfaware. Immediately they realized that they were naked and they felt shame. This is called the the dispensation of conscience. Conscience went all the way until the day of the flood. If you read when God judges the world, he says that every thought of every human on the face of the earth was constantly evil. The conscience was gone. I mean, man was so because so much demonic infestation was at that time. So, the dispensation of innocence was judged when God said to Adam and Eve, "Get out of the garden and you can never come back in." See, we can never go back to heaven in the state of innocence. We go to heaven in full knowledge now of good and evil. We know about evil because we here and we know how bad we are. We know if we you push the right buttons or the wrong button that that we can. So, so we're very much aware that the only way we make it to heaven is because of his grace and because of his mercy and because of one day he's going to kill this body of flesh. You see, when Jesus appear, you're going to shade like a leaf. You're going to be so scared like you never been. The very first time you glimpse any type of holiness or anything, Daniel, whoever it was, they fall down to the ground shaking like dead. Our physical bodies are so corrupt that any glimpse of any holiness causes us to fall apart. I mean coming on glue. That's what Isaiah said. He beheld the Lord and the Trinity of glory said, "Behold, I am undone." Is is on glue. you know the atoms are held together by by this thing and and and when you see the holiness of God you just fall apart. That's what he was talking about. So we need to understand that then God judge innocence. God judge conscience. Now the Bible tells us in the New Testament that our conscience or our mind is emnity against God. This is why you say, "I am healed." And there's a little voice on the back of your head say, "No, you're not." You say, "Oh, I I worship you, Lord Jesus." And no, you don't. You're a hypocrite. And this is why we always have this battle. Unless you have the mind of Christ. Hebrews says, "Sprinkle in your mind with the blood of Jesus." When that turkey says, "No, you're not." I said, "Yes, I am." And guess what? You're not going where I'm going. I'm going to heaven. and thou's going to stay here in this hell. You're not coming with me. You tell that that that that mind that opposes you or that mind that resists you. Why? Because we have the mind of Christ. And the mind of Christ is that he loves us. He gave himself for us. He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And when that trumpet blows, everything negative, everything contrary, everything against is gone, dead, burned. It says we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to be tested by fire. Every word, every thought, every deed, every action, every reaction, everything that ever happen is going to be judged is going to be burned by fire. And the only thing that's going to survive that fire is called jewels, silver, and and gold. Things that can be refined. What is that? Faith, hope, and love. Corinthians 1 Corinthians 13:30. There are three things that remain. Faith, hope, and love. And the greatest is love. He that loves us and gave himself for us. That's what the introduction says. He who loved us and gave himself for us and washed us with his blood. That remains hallelujah cannot be taken. Now why is that important? Now notice in verse seven that he says and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Now you figure you'd be glad to see Jesus coming. Well, that depend which Jesus you're waiting for. If you're waiting for the little Jesus in the manger hidden some place and this wimpsy little guy, he comes back. He comes as a judge. Here comes the judge and he's going to rule. He's going to do away with sin. That's what he's coming. So that's why he says the the the the nations of the world will mourn. Now look at hold your place there and go to Revelation chapter 6 and look at verse 14. Now why this is important because this is the result of when the sixth seal was open. Revelation 6 verse 14. He said, "The sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave, and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountain, and said to the mountains, and to the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb. For the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" So you see that right there on the first seven verses we just read, we're being introduced to the return of Jesus Christ in chapter 7. So this gives us a key. And you see if you listen to to what the regular teaching is about revelation, which I listened to for years, they try to make it all a chronology like you have chapter 1, two, three, and then four follows and then five and then six and then seven. So in that mindset, nothing fits. But if you take chapter 1, two, and three as the physical revelation, as I'm going to show you now, and then you take chapters four, five, and six as describing the same period of time, but from the spiritual view, when you come to chapter 7, they all come together and they make perfect sense because God first give you the physical revelation of what's taking place. He begins with the physical because that's where under that's what we understand. And then he moves on next to the spiritual revelation and he tells you, you want to know why things are happening in the physical like this? Because of what's taking place in the physical. And then in chapter seven, everything comes to place. And now look what happens. Look at verse eight. Verse eight. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end sayaith the Lord who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. This is the the the completion of the revelation. So that we have on the first introduction a many prophetic Bible or or account if I could say of the event that are going to take place in the book. Now to begin with the framework, how do I know now with this knowledge that some chapters are written to the physical revelation and some are written to give us a spiritual revelation. How do I know which chapter is talking about what, right? Because that's the first thing we have to establish. Okay, now look at this. John begins to speak and he says, 'I John, this is Revelation 1:9, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus. Now notice that John is saying, I am in a physical place. I am in a Patmos is there. You can go over there to uh Turkey right now. Patmos is an island that is off of Greece and off of Turkey and you can take a boat and you can go there. They even have a monastery where it's supposed that that John was there. Now he says, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a vo a loud voices on a trumpet." Now notice that John is in a physical place and he is going to be given a spiritual revelation. That means that he's going to be shown something spiritually. And what is it that he's going to be shown about the Lord's day? See, people read that and say, "Oh, the Lord's day, Sunday." That didn't begin until 300 years after John died. They their their Lord's day back over there, they met on on Saturdays on the on the synagogues and they worship every day. That's why Paul says, "You can worship anytime you want to." This definition of what we call today the Lord's day. This is something that tradition didn't make up until 300 years later. So the Lord's day that he's talking about is the day of the Lord, the end of time, the seven-year period when God brings the completion of all of these things. You see, God already judged um uh innocence because we can never go back in innocent. God already judged conscience when he flooded the world. But did you know that when the human governments led a rebellion against God and they built a tower by a man named Nimrod, God did not judge them. You know what God did? He confused their language and scattered them. God had told them, "Scatter yourselves." The reason why they had to scatter themselves around the world because after the flood, the oceans were very, very low and all of the continents were still connected by land bridges. And God wanted them to spread out and cover the entire world. They wanted to make a name for themselves. So they stayed in one place. So what God did is confuse their language, judge them and cause them to scatter themselves. So the the human governments or the kingdoms of this world have never been judged yet. Then God came to Abraham and said since man cannot save himself in innocence, man cannot save himself because of his conscience is so messed up and he cannot save himself by the laws that he makes. So God introduced something that was called the promise. God made a man Abraham. He was his parents were moon worshippers. They were in a place where Iraq is today uh around that area. That's where Abraham was. God says to Abraham, "Get out of this idolattors and I'll bring you out. I'm going to make a covenant with you." Now, Abraham took his dad with him and everything. So, God had to wait until he died and all of the things. Finally, God brings him into the promised land and God enters into a covenant with his men. God makes a promise to a man. He was like a friend with Abraham. He says, "Out of your seed, all of the nations of the world are going to be blessed." He says you are going to have a son and through that son of yours I'm going to bless the entire world. Now out of a out of Abraham came two dispensation. One was physical and one was spiritual. This is why it's so important to understand this from that nature because God took Abraham and says I want you to look at the sand of the seashore. Your descendants is going to be like the sands of the seashore. That's the physical generation. Go to the beach, you got sand. You get sand everywhere. And then he takes him out at night and says, "Now look at the stars. See if you can count them. Your descendants are going to be as the stars in the sky." That's the spiritual. Israel or the Jewish nation are part of the physical promise that God made to Abraham. We the descendants of Abraham in the spirit are the heirs of God according to Abraham in the spiritual realm. So then God listen to this God has already judged innocent and God has already judged conscience but God has never judged the human governments. God has never judged Israel and God has never judged the church. And how is God going to judge them? According to his promises, according to his word. So at the end time, listen to this, God is going to bring together all of the nations in the world of the world into one form of like one world government. Why? Because that's what they were when they first rebelled against God. And they were building a tower going up to heaven. And you today you have a United Nation that has a tower and that's where they all sin. But then God said to Israel, because you violated my Sabbath, because you see everything there, everything in the Bible points to the thousand-year day of rest. Hebrews chapter 4 says they did not enter the rest because of unbelief. And he says you be careful or the same thing can happen to you. Everything in the Bible is you got to make it to the day of rest. Whatever it takes, hang by your fingernails if you have to make it. Keep believing on Jesus. You got to make it into the day of rest. So you see the Israelites because of failing to keep the Sabbath day, God through Daniel says, "I'm going to judge you for 70* 7 490 years. Since you did not give the land rest every seventh year, the Jews were supposed to not plant. They were supposed to trust in God to give him food. You know, if you're a farmer, you know, if you don't plant, you don't eat. So God says, "On the sixth year, I will give you plenty of crops so you don't have to work on the seventh." Because they violated that. God took him 70 years. That's what Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar was about. Took him out of the land for 70 years to give the land 70 years of rest that they had cheated God for 490 years. They had not kept the Sabbath. So God took him out of the land for 70 years. That's why when Daniel is in Babylon and he's reading the promise, he reads the book of Jeremiah where Jeremiah says, "God after 70 years is going to send them back." And Daniel gets all excited. And then the angel tells Daniel, God has appointed a judgment for your people for 490 years. But listen to this. After 483 years, Messiah is going to come and he's going to be cut off. And that's why Jesus came. Exactly 483 years after the Babylon captivity and he got cut off and died. So that means there's seven years that Israel was never judged for. Guess what? When the nations of the world came together, what was their first act they did? They voted in to bring Israel back as a nation. So, in 1948, May 15, I think it was, Israel became a nation after being out of existence for 2,000 years. Now, God has the nations of the world coming together and it has Israel back in the land, yet unbelieving, but yet they're there in the land. And the third thing is the church. Did you know that the church through the middle ages lost all kinds of their God has always had a remnant but the church itself did not have no spiritual awakening until when he began the reformation when they got out of that religion part of it but in 1906 right here in the city of Los Angeles in a place called Asusa street God poured out his spirit that was heard all over the world people from all over the when it took 30, 40, 60 days to travel across would come to that little place in the Susa street uh street to experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And ever since that time, God has been restoring his church back to the apostolic days. Why? Because God always brings something to the place where it was when it first broke down. You see this in Peter. Peter, how did he get saved? He was fishing. He couldn't catch anything. The Lord said, "Throw the net on the other side." He said, "Man, I've been fishing all night because you said, "But because you say so." He threw the net. He recognized it was a miracle such proportion. He repented. Now Jesus, he he he uh he betrayed Jesus. He gone back to fishing. And what does the Lord does? He appears again to Peter. And what does he say? Throw the net on the other side. He's bringing Peter to the place where he got saved to his first love. Peter, you have to come back to this place for me to restore you. Peter throws the net, recognizes that it's in the Lord and what is it when it comes to your there's a fire. That's where Jesus that's where Peter betrayed Jesus. There was a fire at night. He was warming up. Some girl ask him, "Peter, aren't you one of those people?" No, no, no. So, you see, Jesus brought him to her first love, brought him to where he fell. And he said, "Now, if you love me, feed my sheep." You got to hang in there, Peter. You got to keep going. So, you see, God has a way of bringing everything back to the original state before he judges it. This is why we're living in the last generation. We are the only generation since Jesus came and died and rose from the dead that has seen both all of the nations of the world together. Israel as a nation and the church back to his apostolic roots. As a matter of fact, they're saying that the church didn't really wake up to his apostles until 1990 when John Akers and all of those uh men started coming back and preaching that the that the uh that the ministry is the five-fold ministry. The apostles are like the thumb. A hand without the thumb can't grab nothing. And that we needed the apostles. We had the teachers, the evangelists, the pastors, and the prophets, but we needed the apostles. And that's where we are today. And so, you see, if you look at it, this is where God is bringing in God. What you're going to see here on fall is Revelation is the judgment of the kingdoms of the world. That's why the verse that we says there, the kings of the earth all freaked out. the judgment of Israel, seven-year judgment, and the judgment of the church. Now, the judgment of the church goes first. That's what Peter says. Peter says uh uh Peter says that u uh uh judgment begins at home. It begins with the church. Now, let's look at this verse 10. He says, "I was in the spirit on the day of the Lord and I heard a trumpet." So uh Jesus spoke to him and said I am the alpha and the omega the first and the last. What you see write it in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia to Ephesus to Smyrna to Pergamos to Tatia to Sardis to Philadelphia and to Leo Dea. So if you notice right here, we are going to be given the first timeline because you can go now to history and you can see that these seven churches which by the way existed at that time and were seven different cities but if you look at the judgment and which we're not going to do that but if you look at how they deal with them that this has been Christian era as a matter of fact one of the churches He said you will have judgment for 10 days. It is a historical fact that the church was persecuted straight by 10 different emperors. 10 different emperors for a period of 200 years persecuted the church. And so we know that that was the church. So but here's the key that we need to know. What is important to us is the last two churches because the last two churches represent us. We are in the last two churches. But before I get to that, I want to show you how I know that this revelation I can understand it through the physical scope. Now pay attention. Look at this verse 12. 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WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MAN Discover who the Son of Man is, and lift Him up through faith, knowing that Jesus is the Son of God who does nothing on His own. Sent by the Father, He speaks and acts only as the Father has taught Him, always doing what pleases Him. He is never alone, and we too can follow His example to please our Heavenly Father and walk in His constant presence. WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE SON OF MAN Minister Lisa Kane August 12, 2025 Objective: Discover who the Son of Man is, and lift Him up through faith, knowing that Jesus is the Son of God who does nothing on His own. Sent by the Father, He speaks and acts only as the Father has taught Him, always doing what pleases Him. He is never alone, and we too can follow His example to please our Heavenly Father and walk in His constant presence. Synopsis: John 8:28 KJV Jesus declared that when the Son of Man is lifted up, people will recognize who He is and understand that He speaks only what the Father has taught Him. Who is the Son of Man? Jesus is the Son of Man—God’s Son, the eternal Word who became flesh. John 1:1-4 KJV From the very beginning, the Word was with God and was God. Through Him, all things were created, and i Him is life—the light of humanity. John 1:14 KJV The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, revealing the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Genesis 1:1-3 KJV From creation’s first moment, God brought the universe into being, His Spirit moving over the waters, and light coming forth by His command. From the start, Jesus was present with God as Creator of all things. In time, He came into the world through a virgin named Mary, taking on human form. He lived without sin and willingly bore our sins on the cross. John 3:15-18 KJV Jesus gave His life so that all who believe in Him would not perish but have eternal life, for He came not to condemn the world, but to save it. By lifting Him up through faith, we choose to follow His example. Declaring what we learn from Him just like He does with His Father. This also means we’re never alone because Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are always with us. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: When you lift up the Son of Man (written version of above video) John 8:28 KJV 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. Who is the Son of Man? Jesus is the Son of Man. He is the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Word of God that became flesh. John 1:1-4 KJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:14 KJV 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Genesis 1:1-3 KJV In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. As you can see, Jesus was there in the beginning as a spirit with God who created this world. Jesus entered this world through a virgin named Mary and was born as a man. He died on the cross for our sins as a man who never sinned. Our sin was placed on Him at the time of his death. Jesus, as the Son of Man offered Himself that the world through Him might be saved. As you can see, Jesus is the redeemer of humankind, and this is how He is known as the Son of Man because He, the Son of God was born of a virgin named Mary. Isaiah 7:14 KJV 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Luke 1:34-35 KJV 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. He was God in spirit in the beginning, who became a man, who died for our sins, and rose from the dead as first fruits with His new body as a man. John 3:15-18 KJV 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 1 Corinthians 15:20 KJV 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Now that we have confirmed through scripture that Jesus is the Son of Man, let’s go back to our opening scripture: John 8:28 KJV 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. Do you see that Jesus uses the act of faith in this scripture? He said you need to lift Him up first, then you will know…know what? Know that He is the one the scriptures talk about. James 2:17-22 KJV 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? You see, you need to lift Him up first, then you will know who Jesus is. How do you lift Him up? Call on Him. Romans 10:9 KJV 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Confessing with your mouth is calling out to Jesus. In essence, you lift Him up in your heart and acknowledge out loud that He is Lord Jesus, and you will know that He is Lord Jesus. John 8:28-29 KJV 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. Looking more into this scripture, you find out who Jesus is by realizing, because He said it, that He does nothing of Himself but speaks the things His father taught Him. Then He further states that He’s not alone and that He does the things that pleases His father. He sets an example for us to realize that we’re not alone, we have Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. And because of that, we do the things that pleases Him. This is what causes me to want to serve and love Him. To put Him first in my life. I took a leap of faith to confess Him and my life has never been better. Does this mean I don’t face issues? No. It means that when trouble comes to me, I’m at peace because I know my Father has those troubles in the palm of His hands. I know Jesus and because I know Him, I also know my father. Within the context of John 8, Jesus is speaking to the pharisees and the scribes letting them know who their faither is based on their actions. John 8:39-40 KJV 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Jesus makes a clear distinction that your actions determine who you believe. If you want to kill someone, your father is the devil. If you lift up Jesus, you know Him and His father and they become your family. Take the time today to confess and acknowledge Jesus is the Son of God. Once you do, you will know who He is and who His father is, and it will change you for the better. Home Previous Next

ONE BODY To teach believers the biblical truth that the Church is one body with many members, each uniquely gifted and placed by God. The message aims to encourage listeners to embrace their individual calling, support one another in love, and walk faithfully in their God-given role within the body of Christ, free from judgment and division, while drawing strength from the Word and the Spirit. ONE BODY Minister Lisa Kane August 14, 2024 Objective: To teach believers the biblical truth that the Church is one body with many members, each uniquely gifted and placed by God. The message aims to encourage listeners to embrace their individual calling, support one another in love, and walk faithfully in their God-given role within the body of Christ, free from judgment and division, while drawing strength from the Word and the Spirit. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane opens with 1 Corinthians 12, emphasizing that believers, though diverse, form one united body in Christ. She explains that every member—whether strong or weak, prominent or unseen—has a vital place in God’s design. Using scriptural insights, Lisa unpacks the meaning of spiritual gifts, showing how ministries extend beyond the traditional “five-fold” into a broader range of roles such as apostles, prophets, teachers, helpers, administrators, and more. The teaching highlights the responsibility of stronger believers to honor and uplift those who are weaker, guarding against judgment and division, and instead co-laboring in unity. Lisa stresses that ministry is not burdensome but flows out of joy and relationship with God, whether through small acts of kindness or larger leadership roles. She illustrates this with testimonies of believers who followed their heart’s joy—such as caring for children or serving the elderly—and found God opening doors for ministry. The message closes by reaffirming that all gifts and callings come from the Holy Spirit, who equips and directs each believer. Lisa encourages her listeners to seek God personally, spend time in His Word, and allow Him to reveal their unique ministry path, reminding them that being part of Christ’s body is both a privilege and a calling to love, serve, and build one another up. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on Wednesday, August 14th, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word that it does not return void. We bless our ears to hear it. We bless our hearts and minds to receive and believe it. and we bless our soul and spirit to walk in your word, to walk in the relationship we have with you, to walk in the ministry and the joy and the peace that you've given us because your yoke is not heavy. It is light. There's no burden here, Father God. And we thank you. We thank you for your word, your anointing, your presence. And in the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. Amen. Welcome. Glad to have you here. This message is called one body. Let's go to our opening scripture here. And that is in 1 Corinthian 1 Corinthians 12:31. But covet earnestly the best gifts and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. Oh, I love this. I want to uh just establish a little uh groundwork here. If you're new to listening to any of the messages, all of my newer messages in the last year or two have this type of style to it where I put the scripture here and the bolded word is in the King James version. When they translated uh and wrote the King James version, they had multiple words they can use for that scripture. They picked one, they used it. So in this case, use um earnestly here. It it also means to have a warm feeling uh for or against something. Uh the best is also represented by stronger and gifts means gratuitity. So I'm just adding these extra words in to give you a deeper meaning of the scripture is what I'm doing. Okay. So now let's get dive right in and uh you know just to kind of give you an idea what the purpose of this teaching is show you how many options you have at being a part of the body of Christ. And when I say options, choices, how to be in the ministry of the body of Christ. So, we're going to describe the body of Christ and we're going to show you what the Bible shows you as ministries and where everything kind of fits into every category. Right? So, we're going to go and we're going to be focusing on 1 Corinthians 12. So, let's start in verse 12. We're going to read verses 12- 14. For as the body is one, now the body is a sound whole and hath many members. A member is a limb or a part of the body, and all the members of that one body being many, are one body. So also is Christ. For by one spirit, and when you hear the word spirit, it's a current of air. For by one spirit are we all baptized or fully wet into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink irrigated into one spirit. For the body is not one member but many. So just to kind of give you an idea here of what we're talking about, you are seeing how it takes a village to operate in the body of Christ. Now the body of Christ can encompass multiple churches. It can encompass any believer out there. Whether that believer is currently in a church or in a sanctuary. If you are a believer, you are part of the body of Christ. Now, to become a believer, Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. That's part of being the body of Christ. Now, if you want to go into a ministry in the body of Christ, you do need to be waterbaptized. So when you go look at Jesus when he was water baptized, he came up being fully wet and the dove landed on him and the dove represented the Holy Spirit. So then you go into ministry because that's when uh Jesus went and defeated the devil fasting 40 days and he the devil was a done deal and Jesus was able to move into his ministry. He healed. He uh had the blind see. He delivered people from demons. So you're going to see though that there is a church and there's a structure to the church and we are one body and there are different parts of that entire body. So as we saw here in in verses 12 through 14, we're part of a whole. In other words, I can't do all of these. Now I I want you to understand I can do some of these. I just can't do them all at the same time. And the Lord can move me from gift to gift. He's done that with multiple people. But our part is unique to what God has us doing it. And it could be as simple, you know, part of being the body of the Christ is ministering to others. It could be as simple as smiling and showing joy to others or it could be as complicated as leading a church, a congregation. Um, but did you notice the word drink in that scripture? It also means irrigate. Each of us are drinking from the same spirit. So you get this visual where here's the spirit and there is an irrigation path coming from that spirit to each and every one of us as we partake and drink from that same spirit. And what you have to realize is the spirit, the holy spirit is the word of God. So you can't drink from false ideologies such as wokeism or the latest popular acceptance of tolerance. You drink from the word of God. And how do you drink from it? You read it so that you know if someone is misleading but by not teaching in context or purposely using the scripture for their own justification. You have to be very careful. This is how we the body of Christ keeps ourselves separated from worldly thoughts and worldly things. And I want you to understand, don't think of yourself as someone who doesn't understand the Bible. you you you can read it, but it doesn't make any sense to you. You have the Holy Spirit just like anyone else in the word of God does. And he the Holy Spirit will show you if someone is missing the mark with their teaching and he will protect you and keep you from being deceived. very very important that you understand that and that you are reading the word of God because you have a responsibility and you will not get away with being ignorant because the Holy Spirit is convicting you and showing you every day how to be in his word. So let's continue on. We're going to go to verses 18 through 20. We're still in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 18. But now hath God set the members, every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased, choose or prefer him. And if they were all one member, where would where were the body? But now are they many members yet one body? So he's reinforcing here that we're all one body. But I want you to notice what Paul is saying here. There's a measurement of each person in the body of Christ. And you're going to see that here in just a moment as we get into scriptures. But he's he's trying to get you to understand that there's every member. Every person is a member. Doesn't matter who you are. If you're a believer in Christ, you're part of that member. And God assigns us a place as he pleases. He prefers, he chooses. And he knows your heart. He knows how best to place you. This is how we are one body because we don't all do the same thing. I was just listening to testimony last night at our Tuesday night Bible study and one of the women, she just brings people into her home if they're in need. She says, "Here, I have a place for you in my home." That is part of ministry. That is part of this. We're gonna get into this a whole lot more and I want you to see where you can be a part of this ministry, where you place yourself in there and what you can do. And God's ministry is not a heavy burden. It's not hard and it's not tiresome. It is beautiful and he does it at your level of joy. He's This is a relationship that God is having with you. And when you're having that relationship with him, he knows what you like. There's another lady who shared a testimony last night. She loves children. She loves working with children. That is her thing. And she's about to start up a daycare at her church who had none. And they are working with her. They're paying for everything. They brought her in because of the joy of her heart. The Lord opened the door there. That's how that's another ministry. You hear theologians talk about a five-fold ministry. There's many more ministries than that. We're going to get more into that. Let's continue on with verse 22 here in 23. Nay, much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary. We're going to get to that in just a moment. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor. And our uncom parts have more abundant comeliness. Oh, this is very very important there. Here again is that measurement. He's reinforcing that we're one body and now he's showing you the different levels of each person. There are some who are strong and mighty in the body of Christ. And there are some who could barely wake up every day, who could barely pray, but God hears them. And God is with each and every single one of them. But notice what he's telling the strong to do. Place your hedge of protection around them. Look at this. When you bestow, you are putting your hedge around them and you're calling them abundant honor. You are placing them in abundant honor. They're weak and we have to give them more honor. Part of that ministry is going up to them saying, "Can I pray with you? Can I minister to you? Can I help you with something?" There was a testimony in the church a few months ago that I heard where an elderly woman, this young kid, he's got to be 18, 19 years old. He came and he said, "I'm going to do the hard things for you over your house. I'm going to take care of your house." He cleaned the windows. He was taking out the trash. He was doing the lawn. That's a ministry. You see, in that measurement of the body of Christ, we do not judge one another. We're going to see that here in scripture. So, as we're more active in the body of Christ, someone like me who's strong, I'm intercessory prayer. I'm praying the Holy Spirit into you, moving you, and then God brings in another person to be there, help you. But the Holy Spirit is working through each of us over them. And we give much honor to those who are weak because we're trying to lift them up, trying to bolster them, trying to give them that courage, that strength that they need to do that. And there are many ways we can do that. I pray and I forgive them here in the spirit in my secret place. And I tell those demons to get lost because you need an opening door to move. So once you take care of the spiritual matter, you can be there for them. You can help them through their situation. You can share to your testimony and hopes. They grab a hold of that and know that God is real and still very active today. One of the reasons why they're weak is because their belief, their faith isn't so high. But when they see your faith, it starts to bolster them. Oh, hallelujah. I hope you guys are getting this because see this is your responsibility as being part of the body of Christ. Let's continue on and look at verses 24 and 25. Um for our now he's still talking about looks where when you look at someone because this is what we tend to do. I'm guilty of this. You look at somebody and you wonder, are they all there? Um, and you wonder, why aren't they stronger in the Lord? Why aren't they able to do this? And see, that's judging. So, what Paul is addressing is that attitude so that we can be in this body of Christ without that attitude, but going in and looking and seeing them differently, seeing them with God's eyes. For our comely well-formed, noble parts have no need. See, I have no need of what does it show? Employment, demand, use, want. But God hath tempered the body together. He co-mingled, combined, having more, having given more abundant honor or value, money paid to that part which lacked to be later or inferior. You see, someone who's struggling, they're realizing and recognizing the sin that they come from, have been living in, and they're struggling. And so, what Paul is saying is that they have had a higher price paid for them by Jesus who redeemed them on the cross. And they haven't quite recognized that yet. So our part is to co-mingle with them and encourage them. Give them that honor. Let them know they are redeemed by the blood of Jesus. They're saved just like me. And just cuz my faith is up here and I don't have any need of that anymore, I still can give it to others. And by the way, there are times I will need it. There's times we hit a low point. Even if we've been a believer for 50 years, a strong believer, there are times where we struggle internally with what's going on. And so roles can reverse. This is why we're co-mingling together as a one body, a body of Christ encouraging each and everyone. And look at this. He says that there should be no schism, no split, no gap, no division, no rent in the body, but that the members should have the same care that we're care to be anxious about. Take thought one for another. So I should be thinking and you should be thinking about those around us plus ourselves. We should be encouraged to go and be with them. Hallelujah. I I hope that you guys are getting this. Uh and and as you think about them, you you're you're seeing them through God's eyes. You're you're seeing the hurt and the need. You're going to see here in verse 26 here in just a moment that when they suffer, we suffer. But when they have a great testimony, we rejoice with them. We cannot have this gap or this schism in here. We have to be one body joining at the arms, the hands, and forgiving one another, encouraging one another, lifting one another. Oh, hallelujah. I hope you're getting that. Let's go look at verses 26 and 27 so we can continue and get this. And whether one member suffer, which experiences pain, all the members suffer with it. or one member be honored, full of glory, magnified. All the members rejoice, sympathize and gladness, congratulate with him. Now ye are the body of Christ and members a limb part of the body in particular. Each of us are in particular members of the body of Christ. So as an assembly, if we have someone suffering, we gather around with them. We show them that we're there. We suffer with them. And as an assembly, when they're sharing their testimony, they're excited. We get excited with them. This is how we work together as one body moving under the spirit of the Holy Ghost because we are irrigated by the word of God, by the Holy Spirit. each and every one of us doing our part because we are a particular limb in that entire body. Now let's go to verses 28 and 29. I want you to see this. And God had set some in the church. So this is where we're going to get into what a lot of um theologians and pastors and preachers talk about as a five-fold ministry. Well, I there is a five-fold ministry, but there's more than a five-fold ministry. It's more and I want you to see the more because you may not be called to be a preacher or a teacher. Um, look at me. I do webcam teachings. You know, I'm not called to be a pastor and I that's not my calling. In fact, my calling is to teach and to you. Let's get into it. I want you to see something here. Verse 20. And God hath set some in the church. A church is a calling out or an assembly. First apostles, a delegate ambassador, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, reliefs, diversities of tongues. And I'm going to continue in verse 29 here in just a minute. I want you to see something here. So, as a lot of people talk about this five-fold ministry, notice there were a lot more than five-fold ministry. In fact, let's go count them. Let's count them. You've got uh apostles one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Did I count that right? So, you have apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, gifts of healing, helps, governments, and diversity of tongues. I see eight there. So we have eight min ministries, not a five-fold, an eightfold ministry. Amen. So let's go over them. Let's talk about them. So we saw that apostles, they're ambassadors of Christ to the world. Paul and Peter very examples of ambassadors. A prophet foretells or is an inspired speaker. Another way to look at that is they're poetic. They they they prophesy poetically. Look at how Isaiah and Jeremiah and the prophets write their books. It's very poetic. Teachers, they teach what they know because they're masters of what they teach. And in order to be a teacher, you need to be a student first. If you want to teach the word of God, you need to be in the word of God, allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal the scriptures to you. And I'm called to teach. What I want to do is I want to take you to um a scripture here about teaching. I because I'm a teacher, I want to elaborate a little bit more on the ministry of teaching. Okay? I want to I want to show you something because if you see how teaching works through the Bible, hopefully you get into the Bible and you will find out how all the other ministries work through the Bible. Okay? You can see what Paul and Peter did as apostles. You can see what prophets did. Now let's look at what teachers do. So let's go to 1 Corinthians 2 12-16. Says, "Now we have received or take not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know, be aware of the things that are freely given to us of God, which things we also we speak." When you see when you teach, when you become a teacher, you have been a student. You're hearing the word of God. He is filling your cup up with the scriptures. Well, then what happens is when you go to speak it, you're now telling it now you're preaching it not in the words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Ghost teaches. Comparing. See that word comparing means to judge one thing in connection with another. So comparing spiritual things which is the non-carnal ethal with spiritual or supernatural things. And then look at this. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness. Remember the walls of Jericho? What did God tell Joshua to have Israel do? March around the city, blow the trumpet and shout. And he did it specific mountains and all that. You can go read that. And then the walls came tumbling down. That was absurd to go and march, be quiet, and then shout, "Wait a minute. If I'm going to defeat a city, shouldn't I have weapons of mass destruction, more bows and arrows, more this, more that?" No, it was absurdity. See, God used Israel to show that worldly thinking is an absurdity. It's a foolishness. But we can see that the wisdom of God may seem foolish to the world, but to him it's not. And he moves in that. Does that God God likes to do this kind of stuff? If you didn't figure that out yet absurdity unto him, neither can he know them because they are spiritually or divinely discerned. And discerned means scrutinized. You see, people can't know. people of the world who are living by the world can't know what's going on uh spiritually because they're not being definely uh divinely um directed by the Holy Spirit. Now verse 15, but he that is spiritual judges. He scrutinizes, investigates, examines, asks all things. Yet he himself is judged of no man. You see, when you're teaching under the spirit of God, they can't judge you because you're under God's guidance, under the spirit, under the Holy Spirit, not worldly. Because the world doesn't even know what they can't even define what a woman is right now. They can't even come together in unity to try to fix major issues in the world. Everything is about me, me, me, me. That's how the world thinks. and they think they know what's best for you. That's why you ought to follow them. They're wrong. It might some of the things might they're thinking might sound right for some situations, but then they're leaving out gaps and they leave all these other people hanging. It'll never be fixed through the world. It will always be fixed through the Holy Spirit, through God. Uh verse 16, for who hath known the mind intellect of the Lord that he may instruct, drive together, unite him? But we have the mind of Christ, the intellect of Christ. We have that. Oh, that is very very important. Now, so, so let's look at these teachers. You see, there's a lot of people that go to seminary school, but when they teach, they don't understand the scripture because they don't understand the spiritual aspect of the living word of God. They don't understand why God heals sometimes and sometimes he doesn't. He they don't understand why people get cancer. They don't understand why little children die. And the scripture tells us all of this. So what do we do? We have to spend time with Christ so that we have the mind of Christ that bubbles out of our mouths. His and how do you spend time? It's getting to know his word. See, when you hear a teacher say something to the effect like I I don't understand this, but this is what it says. There's a big red flag there. You now know that person, you need to pray for that person because they're trying to be a teacher, but they can't because they're not in the spirit with God. And they'll avoid certain scriptures because it makes no sense to them, because it's absurd to them, because they're not with the intellect mind of Christ. I hope you're getting this. So, as a teacher, you need to have the mind of Christ. You have to be Christlike. This is why I can sit here and teach on forgiveness because I do it. Christ said to forgive, I forgive. And he says, "Whatever you forgive, I will forgive." Well, I take that and I operate in that. You And so when you find these people that are having trouble uh uh not understanding, they desire it. They just they want to do it their way. And they haven't got into the secret place with the Lord. They haven't gone to him. They haven't asked him. They haven't sought him. They haven't searched him. They haven't looked. They haven't strived to understand the mind of Christ. They haven't asked him to reveal the mystery or answer their questions. So, you know, that's teaching. And I hope that you see how being in the word of God in the secret place with the Lord will help you in every ministry because it's a gift from God and he will do it with you. Whatever the joy of your heart is. If your joy is taking care of children, then he's going to open the doors for that with you. That's how he works. But remember, we're looking at eight separate things that he identified. I just got to teachers. Let's go back to reading again. We're at miracles. Now look at this. So he says after, so you see thirdly teachers after that miracles. That word miracles means force, miraculous power, ability. What does that mean? See, there are those who let the Holy Spirit move through them, allowing the miracles to happen. So, an example could be in a situation where someone who hasn't been living a great life now has to go to court, but they repented. They called on God and their family is with their church and they're all praying. And then the favor of the Lord is upon that guy and the court system finds favor on him and he gets either a lesser sentence or he's cleared of it all. That's somebody who has a ministry in the gift of miracles. But it's and it could be the entire body doing that together because when you pray in unity, you create miracles. The next one is gifts of healing. And I know uh when you see somebody get healed, it's a it's a gratuitity from the Lord. It's a gift because he can heal or he cannot. If you look at Jesus ministry about healing, you're going to find that most of the people that were healed were by their own faith. Jesus didn't even have to touch him. Remember the centurion who said, "My servant is sick. Hey, you don't even have to come to my house. I'm not worthy of you to come to my house, but you tell your servants. It's like me. I have to tell my servants and I respond to those who tell me what to do." And Jesus marveled at him. See, look at how much faith he has. Your servant is healed. Jesus never even went. Well, a gift of healing is done through faith. And you if you have faith and they don't, you can intercede on their behalf and say, "Lord, I'm applying my faith to their healing and you will see them healed. I'm I do this all the time." And it's neat to see the testimony of the healings that take place in the church. And the funny thing is, they don't even know I'm doing it. They don't have to know. They just know that, hey, yeah, God healed me. That's all they need to know. God healed. But as a member of the body of Christ, we can initiate that and be part of that ministry because it's a ministry. What do we have next here? After gifts, we have helps. Helps. That's relief. You know what helps is? It's taking like the uh young man I I used as a testimony earlier. This young man went to an elderly woman's house. They bonded. They they chatted about everything. He's there. She makes him a meal and they sit down. They talk and they'll talk for hours, but he's there cleaning her windows doing all the hard work she physically cannot do. That's helping. How about helping somebody who is at the hospital, who had surgery, who came home, the Bible study I attend on Sunday morning class, they are called the servants class. They're there for that. They go and take meals to these people to help them get through. They help clean their house, keep their house clean, help them get to that's part of the ministry of being a part of the body of Christ. That's what that is. And then you have, let's see, what else do we have? We have governments. You know, let me see if I counted this right earlier. See, apostles, prophets, teachers, miracles, gifts, helps, governments, diversity. Yeah. Yeah. I count it as eight. It's still eight. I don't know why I keep thinking it's nine. It's not governments. What's governments? What does that have anything to do with it? There's many parts to running the body of Christ. And the governments has to do with the administration, the finance. Maybe you're just somebody who has a lot of money because the Lord has blessed you and you have a heart for managing money. You can be donating, tithing, helping build churches. Uh part of the government is building maintenance. Uh and you know what? Here's what's so funny. This is a great example of how the body of Christ works as one. And I want you to see this and I want you to get this. The janitorial services are just as equal to the pastor behind the pulpit. You want to know why? They're both equal. There is no difference. And like the servants class and somebody being there serving, that is equal to all this. You want to know why? Because when you walk into a church and you hear that preacher preach, but if you go to that bathroom, that bathroom is dirty, you ain't going to go back. You don't want to go back. That preacher might have been good, but who's who's cleaning the bathroom? That janitorial service is just as important as any ministry that the Holy Spirit has given us as a body of Christ. That is part of the government portion of walking in the body of Christ. I hope you get that. The last one is diversity of tongues. Let's go look at that. Diversity of tongues. Diversity of tongues is like, let's say you have somebody who's deaf and you have somebody could do sign language or you're an English service, but you have Spanish a a good Spanish speaking or only Spanish- speakaking uh group of people showing up. You you invest in those translators and they can hear the scripture. They can hear your teaching in Spanish while they're sitting there. That is diversity of tongues in the body of Christ. Now, we do have speaking of tongues as a gift, but in this particular case, you're just dealing with the multiple language in the body of Christ. Somebody interpreting, somebody who can speak more than one language. God set that example for us to see. And that again is part of being the body of Christ. Now where we want to do is go look and see what the conclusion of the matter is. Right? Let's conclude with 1 Corinthians 12:30 through31. Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? Let's go back. I want to show you something here in that last set of scriptures we were looking at because I didn't read that scripture now that I realize it. Let's see here. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Says verse 29. Are all apostles? are all prophets, are all teachers, are all workers of miracles. Now, we can go look at that closing scripture. Are have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? What he's saying here is you can't do all of them by yourself all of the time because you're not God. That's what he's saying. Verse 31, but covet, this was our opening scripture, covet earnestly the best gifts, yet show I unto you a more excellent way. In other words, there's more than these gifts. And he's going to show you the path to that. He's going to open the doors because there's somewhere in your heart that you have a particular thing that you do very well. And God is going to do. You know, mine is praying in secret. Intercessory prayer warrior. And you know what? I enjoy it. I make a way when my family life alters my daily routine. And it does. As a woman, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. And I have to deal with the changes in my family, cook and clean and all that kind of fun stuff. I still make a way to go before the Lord. How do you want me to do this? What are we going to do, Lord? Okay. So, like last week, we were on vacation. So, I pray certain prayers throughout the week. So, I took Mondays and Wednesdays prayed, prayed them on Monday. I took Tuesdays and Thursdays and I prayed them on Thursday or Tuesday. So, that way Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I had off on vacation because it's a joy for me to do that. I love praying like that with the Holy Spirit and he makes a way for me to do that. Gives me the time. Now I ask you, what ministry do you want to do? What's in your heart that the Lord can open the door for you? Start by spending some time with him, asking him questions, seeking, finding, opening the word of God, and let him lead you. and he will open the doors for you. I promise you that. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void and that we are encouraged to walk in the ministries that you have given us, Father God, for it is the joy that you place in our hearts to do the things that you called us to do. Thank you, Lord. We love you, praise you, and honor you for what you're doing. And I thank you for showing us this teaching. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

I AM THE WAY The objective of this teaching is to lead believers into a deeper understanding of Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). It emphasizes that Jesus not only provides the path to salvation but also offers continual progress, deliverance, healing, and restoration for those who follow Him. The goal is to encourage listeners to walk in the authority, prescriptions, and commandments of Christ, applying His word and promises to every area of their lives. I AM THE WAY Minister Lisa Kane November 10, 2024 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to lead believers into a deeper understanding of Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). It emphasizes that Jesus not only provides the path to salvation but also offers continual progress, deliverance, healing, and restoration for those who follow Him. The goal is to encourage listeners to walk in the authority, prescriptions, and commandments of Christ, applying His word and promises to every area of their lives. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane unpacks the powerful declaration of Jesus in John 14:6: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” The teaching highlights that Jesus is more than just the access point to God—He is our ongoing progress, the truth that sets us free, and the life that sustains us. Through His obedience to the Father and His completed work on the cross, believers are redeemed, reconciled, and empowered to walk in the same authority He carried. Lisa explains how trials, persecution, and daily struggles can weigh on the soul, but the prescription Jesus gives—faith, obedience, repentance, and reliance on His name—brings victory and deliverance. Scriptures such as Psalm 35:3 and Romans 10:9 are used to show how confession and declaration of Jesus as Lord establish healing, freedom, and breakthrough. She also reminds believers of the importance of holy communion, dwelling in God’s presence, and obeying Christ’s commandments as the ongoing prescription for health and wholeness. The message weaves together biblical teaching, personal testimony, and practical application. It encourages believers to call on the name of Jesus in every area—health, finances, relationships, and spiritual growth—knowing that His Spirit dwells within us. Lisa urges listeners to embrace their identity as joint-heirs with Christ, walk in deliverance from sin and sickness, and live abundantly as a testimony to God’s glory. Ultimately, this teaching stirs faith, awakens revival, and calls for a renewed commitment to Jesus as the only way, the eternal truth, and the source of everlasting life. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this teaching on Sunday, November 10th, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Let your word not return void. And I pray that what we receive today in your word just ministers to our heart that it never leaves. that we know what your presence is. That we know what you have done for us. That we recognize it and honor and respect respect who you are and the prescriptions that you've given us to stand in good health with you to stand in good faith with you. to have faith, Father God, to lift you up, to bless you, to march as a saint of your army and to take back what belongs to us in the name of Jesus. Because you are a God who restores, who reconciles and we know this, Father God, and we are asking for your reconciliation. We are asking for a spirit of revival. We are asking for a spirit of repentance. We are asking for the spirit of truth to be within us, Father God, to manifest out of us. and manifest into all those around us. In the name of Jesus, we pray that your word go forth. Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Oh, I'm very excited about this teaching. Actually, I haven't even practiced it or or rehearsed it, but I know this is from the Holy Spirit, and so good. Okay, so we're going to call this I am the way. Let's go to our opening scripture here in John 14:6. Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." Now, as a reminder, when I teach, I teach using the King James version scripture. So, when you see a word in bold, that's the word that the King James version translators chose. The words in uh parentheses come from the Strong's Hebrew or Greek dictionary. And there are other words that could have been used in lie of the bolded word. So, so I am the way. Oh, look at what the word way means. Word way is another way to look at it is your road or your progress. As you make progress in your relationship with the Lord, Jesus is saying, I am that way. I am your progress. And if you are truthful with yourself, you can look at yourself and know that he has made great progress in each of us. statement. Some more than others, but that's okay. Still making progress in this. That's what's incredible. And he says, "The truth and the life, no man comes or to go or comes to come or go unto the father but by me." So Jesus is talking to his disciples in in this section of of scripture. So let's put it in context. He is speaking to his disciples about who the father is. And they're asking, you know, well, who is the father? So he's saying if you see me and you see what I do, you will know the father. Because Jesus did everything his father asked him to do. His father asked him to go and redeem us. And Jesus said, "I have no problem with this. I'm going to go redeem them, redeem the lost." He went to the cross in full knowledge of what he was going to accomplish, knowing that he could not step away from it. He went through with it. He could have called down legions of angels and changed the whole outcome. He could have changed anything anywhere. But he went through with it. And that's very important for us to understand what Jesus says, I am the way or when he says, "I am the way." You see, when Jesus went to the cross and he did exactly what he wanted to do and he went through with it, I can't emphasize that enough. When he got to the other side, he says, "Here, I'm giving you this." We're going to get into scripture. We're going to see more of this. So, he is saying, "I'm not leaving you comfortless. I'm not leaving you without a way. I am leaving you to go to my father, but I'm making you an equal to me where you would do greater things than even I. How do I know this? We're going to see this in scripture. The other thing is when you look at when Jesus was on his way out of death because he died and he was buried for three days and he's out of that. He's ascending from that on his way up. And I've said this numerous times through several teachings and actually did a teaching on it um called my father my god. Jesus says to Mary Magdalene on the way up I go to my father your father my god your your god. So we know that if Jesus is going to imitate his father and we imitate Jesus, we can imitate God in the relationship that he's given us because he's given us a way. I'm not saying we're going to be gods. We're not. But we are adopted joint hes meaning the same authority that Jesus has ha has because he still has it. The same authority we have today. And I'm hoping to be able to teach this to you so that you can come out of whatever you're dealing with and walk in his anointing, in his freedom, in his liberty because you don't have to walk the same way the world walks. So, let's continue on in John or excuse me, look at Psalm Psalm 35:3. Draw or pour out also the spear or the lance javelin and stop the way against. Now, that way against is encountering against friendly or hostile them that persecute or run after chase me. Say unto my soul, which is my breathing creature vitality, I am thy salvation, which means something saved, delivered. Let's talk about this for a moment. When Jesus says, "I am the way," he's your progress. He's the one who's going to get you going. This psalmist is saying, "Look, I need you to stop what's coming against me, whether it's friendly or hostile. In this case, it's hostile." They're persecuting him. They're chasing him. And he's saying unto his soul, I am thy salvation. Because he's saying Jesus, he's referring to the salvation of God. And he's telling it to his soul. Remember what Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. This is very, very important that we're dealing with the mouth here. And you can see the psalmist is telling you, listen, there's things that are coming after you. They're persecuting you. It could be you. You could be persecuting yourself, not getting enough sleep, irritated by everything and anything around you. It could be the world against you. We just had the election and Trump became the victory. He's going to be the 47th president of the United States of America. And I see these people throwing themselves down on the ground like they're demonic. Actually, it reminds me of a demonic situation uh or even a 2-year-old temper tantrum. I saw one girl throw herself down, get up and run and miss the door and just face planted the edge of the door and collapsed. She she knocked herself out. the see to her in her mind using her as an example she didn't get the outcome she wanted. So she is being persecuted. You have things that are on your plate at work or you have your children or your finances or your health, whatever it may be. These are things that are on your mind that are important to you that are persecuting you. I don't have enough money for this. I don't know why my health is doing this. And these are the things that persecute. They chase after us. Look at what he's saying here. But then he says, "Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation." Because remember, Jesus lifted us up and we're equals with him. And what authority he has, we have. I know that you're probably thinking, "No, no, no. I'm not like Jesus or I cannot be like Jesus." It could be at the moment in your life, the way you're living your life, especially if you're thinking that you're thinking and you're possibly living in sin. Well, guess what? The purpose of Jesus going to the cross was to redeem you of all sin. He's done that. Now, now that you're redeemed, what do you think of that? How do you think of that? What should you do? Maybe show some respect and say, "I'm going to turn my life around. I don't want to think like that. I don't want to be like a sinner. I don't want to do that anymore. I want to say to my soul that I am saved. I am delivered." You see, the thing about deliverance ministry, let's let's get the the basics of this for just a brief moment. It's taking your thinking from thinking what is against you, focusing on the issues against you and challenging or changing that thinking to the thinking of Jesus is my Lord and Savior. So, for example, if you've gotten some rough news from the doctor, cancer, you're going through chemotherapy or anything, my mom is having to go through this and it is rough and it is rough. However, she has the right to change her thinking, saying, "I don't need to go through this. I've got the name of Jesus, and I declare the name of Jesus over my life." If you have somebody who's persecuting, your finances are persecuting you, which are based on decisions you made, but or out maybe out of circumstances, out of your hands, maybe. What you can do though is you say in the name of Jesus, I'm delivered. I'm healed. I'm set apart from that. That's what I am. The way, the truth, and the life is. You're declaring the name of Jesus with the progress report of goodness of Jesus' name of his authority over your circumstance. Now it might not happen in that moment or even two weeks but I will tell you there is a shift and sometimes it happens immediately where everything suddenly shifts for you because you declared the name of Jesus over it. Now I believe that it happens right away. Let's remember though what happened to Daniel when he went to the Lord and started fasting. The angel told him, it took him 21 days to get there. And the angel told him, I started getting here that first day when the Lord told me to come here, but I had opposition. So now we're understanding there is a spiritual opposition atmosphere going on around us. But when we declare the name of Jesus, we are free. We are no longer under the oppressive enemy pulling us down. We can be delivered, set free, healed, walk out of it. We can finally say, "I've had enough. I'm not going to take any more medications. I'm sick and tired of this. I want my stomach to be normal. I do not want to have issues with my appetite. I'm gonna live to the life fully because no matter how much medication you take, no matter how much of whatever you do, you're not going to add one extra second on your life because you will go home with the Lord when the Lord wants you to go home. The question is now, do you want to live your life now while you're in the flesh for Christ and live it fully, comfortably, pleasant, or do you want to live it in pain and suffering the way the world thinks it needs to be lived? Oh, you got cancer, you have to do the chemotherapy. Or, oh, you got diabetes, you're going to have to take those drugs. Let me let me let you in on a little secret here, my friends. God has provided the authority of his name Jesus. He has provided the herbs of the earth and he has provided a mechanism of where our bodies heal themselves. We should not be in the condition we're in. And that goes for the entire world. We should not have the health crisis we see today. And you want to know why we shouldn't see it? Is because we need more teachers and more preachers that are getting up and standing up in faith. We are the house of faith ministries. We're about faith where we stand up in faith and declare faith and atone for one another, forgive one another, love one another, love his commandments. That is the prescription that Jesus gives us to live life to its fullest, without pain, without discomfort, without hurt. That's the gift of life we have. Romans 6:23 says, "The wages of sin is death." So if we're dying, it's because we've sinned. But if you ask Jesus to forgive you, guess what? Sin's gone. Now you're living life. You should not be living the consequences of what your sin did. And it should be forgiven and nullified where it doesn't even go to your children or your grandchildren or your great-grandchildren. Do you know that we're living today this we are part of the consequences of what our greatgrandparents lived before us. So whatever sin that they were inherent upon or uh susceptible to they that influences us today. I don't even know my great-grandparents. They I knew them as a little child but I did not know them know them as an adult. So I have no idea what their life was about, but I prayed and forgave them, which breaks the chain of the consequences. So now I pray and forgive me and Jesus forgives me. So it breaks the chain so that my children, my daughter, my grandsons, and my great grandchildren that I don't have yet, if the Lord carries, they are covered and protected. Now they've got righteousness on them, a blessing of righteousness. So ask yourself, do you not just want to be better physically, but do you want your children to be better physically? Because that's important. Let's continue on and get into this. I know we're 15 minutes in. I haven't even got to the meat of it. John 14:es 12-8. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth or has faith on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to my father. Jesus says basically if I stay longer with you I might have beat you on the works but because I have to go to my father because I have to build there's gonna be mansions for you. If you read the scriptures in this chapter he talks about mansion. He says I wouldn't tell you if they weren't there. They're there. He's building a home for you. So he had to go to his father. So he says, "I need you to walk in my authority and I need you to do even greater things than I did because I want my way to go forth, which is that road, that progress report of salvation building and building and suddenly manifesting itself out onto others where you're in the grocery store and somebody asks you, "Hey, What is it that you have that I don't? There's there's something about you. You're full of life and light. I like it. What is it that you That's when you say, "I have Jesus." And they see the difference. And they know you get to witness to them. Verse 13. And he continues on. And whatsoever ye shall ask, that word ask is beg, call, desire, crave in my name, that will I do, that the father may be glorified or magnified in the son. You got to ask for what it is that you want. You want to be cancer free, ask to be cancer free. And I suggest doing it with somebody at your church who is either an elder or on the prayer team who is covered by the eldership. As James 5 says, get anointed by oil. And where two or three are gathered in his name, there Jesus is in the midst. And then you ask, I want to be cancer free. And he will show you that way to get there. Whether you start feeling better immediately or it takes time. Sometimes it's a progress a progress. You know, me getting clean and out of that diabetic realm. It took about three months. I had been on that stuff for I don't know several years because I believed what the doctor said. I mean, I just h I'm I'm so glad that the Lord showed me how to get out of that because I was entwined in that. And it's like, how can I be in ministry and and how could I stand in faith and represent faith, especially in this ministry and not walking myself? You see, it's an oxymoron, you know, and and half the time when I'm preaching, I'm preaching to myself. But I'm urging you, call on the name of Jesus. He is the way. He's going to make that way through your life a way where you're going to get to the desire. You're going to get to where it is you want. But he might change your desire. He might transform your mind, the way you think. Instead of just praying for me, me, me, me, myself, and I, he's going to have you praying for those around you. and he's going to minister to uh through that path. So go to verse 14. If ye ask, if if ye shall ask, which is at call, crave, desire, anything in my name, I will do it. Then look what he does. He adds something extra here. He says, if ye love me, keep my commandments. That word love means social moral sense. It's like an obligation. That word commandment is prescription. He's telling you this is the prescription to stay healed. Do you see this? I hope you are love out of social moral sense obligation. So in other words, when you are obligated to God, especially for what Jesus did on the cross, you you you recognize, you say, "Wow, Jesus, you did this on the cross." And it gets on the inside of you. It changes you. And when you sense that change, suddenly you're obligated. You feel the obligation, the moral sense, the right thing to do. Right thing is to go to church. The right thing is to read the Bible. The right thing is to call on Jesus. And notice what he says. If you keep my commandments, his commandments, the prescription, what are his commandments? keep the social moral sense obligation. That's love. That's the definition of the love used in this scripture. And he's telling you if you keep if you love me, you're obligated to him. You you're you have your sense, your moral sense for him. Keep the commandments, your prescription. Now, a lot of prescription deals with making sure you keep calling on the name of Jesus, making sure that you keep taking holy communion, making sure that you are in church, making sure that you are reading your Bible. Psalm 91 says to dwell in the presence with the Lord in the secret place. There's all kinds of things the Bible tells us to do. And they're not hard. They're very simple, easy things. Jesus says, "My yoke is not heavy." And it isn't. We're to go do these things. And then he says further verse 16, "And I will pray." Jesus will pray, interrogate, request, beseech, desire the father. He's going to go to the father and he will give you another comforter, which means intercessor, consoler, advocate that he may abide with you forever. You see, you have the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit within you that when you say in the name of Jesus, guess what? The Holy Spirit and his strong angels move on your behalf. And especially if you're putting in the word of God with it, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. By his stripes, I was healed. Guess what? The Holy Spirit, the spirit of life, these strong angels are obligated because they obey God, because they love God, they're obligated to move on your behalf. And guess who runs? The devil. Let's keep going. Even the spirit, this is verse 17, even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not. Neither know it. They don't, they don't know him. They don't know the spirit of truth. They don't know Jesus. But ye talking to us who believe. Ye know him for he dwells. He Jesus is staying. He's relating with us. He's enduring with us and shall be in you. He says, "I will not leave you comfortless or bereie, fatherless, perilous. I will come to you even to this day. The Holy Spirit comes to us because he is within us. But keeping his commandments, verse 21, he that keep that hath my commandments, the prescription, you have it. You see, you already know the prescription. And the prescription is in the name of Jesus. You get a headache instead of taking a pill. In the name of Jesus, I'm whole healed. I don't have a headache. Take the holy communion because it reminds you to go back to the power of the cross. It says, "Here I am at the cross, Lord. I remember what you did, Jesus. By your stripes, I'm healed. By the crown, the thorns that you had in your head. By the blood that came down your body, I am redeemed. I have no sin left in me because it has fleeed because your blood flows through my veins." And as you say that, as you walk in that authority, I promise you, and Jesus keeps his promises that he will be with you, it will not bother you, you can have life and life abundantly. Amen. Verse 21. He that hath my commandments, prescripture, prescription, and keeps it, you watch, you guard, you keep an eye on those commandments. You keep an eye on it. Oh man, we didn't go to church on Sunday. I need to have holy communion. Let me have holy community. Let's do it now. I'm learning that holy communion is a very powerful tool in keeping healed and whole. I urge you to take holy communion at minimum a week. We do it every Sunday at the church. And if we happen to miss that service for whatever particular reason, we're here at home and we have holy communion. It is very imperative that we take that holy communion. That's one. That's an obligation that shows love to Jesus because you're remembering him on the cross. And that activates the power of the cross by his stripes. He was whipped on the back for us. And that was for our healing so that we could be healed and live in our healing. We don't have to live in sickness and disease. Amen. And watch you have See, you got to keep guard over that. I just emphasize that them he it is that loveth me. Let's start from that scripture at the top of that scripture. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. You see, by you demonstrating keeping those commandments, you're showing your love to him. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Jesus will glorify himself out of your body, and he will show you off to the world. That's how much he wants to be there. He's going to tell the world, "Look, she's not going to age as much as someone who's in sin all the time. She's going to look beautiful and you're going to see that peace and that faith and that love and that joy come out of her because he's demonstrating his will, his way out of you which will minister to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. Amen. Because you will do greater things than he did. Verse 22, Judas saith unto him not a scariot, Lord, how is it that thou will manifest thyself and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him." See, Jesus is going to come and reside in you, reside in you. He's going to be there in you because you're the holy temple. Your body is a holy temple. He wants to abode in you. The father with him and the comforter. So all three, the trinity wants to abide in you. Verse 24. He that loveth me not keepeth my not my sayings, and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Do you think the disciples remembered everything that they spoke about or what Jesus spoke about to them during the three years? No. But the Holy Spirit came and told them, reminded brought to remembrance me getting delivered. It took a three-month progress of getting rid of that diabetic medicine, cholesterol medicine, all that junk. It took about three months. But the Lord, the Holy Spirit kept bringing to remembrance conversations I had with doctors and then showing me the red flags. And I was like, "Oh, I don't want to live like this. They've been lying to me. I don't have diabetes." And I had never had I tried casting it out. And by the way, I had casted out depression 30 plus years ago and I was successful at that because that was a real spirit. Diabetes isn't. But the name of Jesus is real and he resides in me. So every time you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord over my finances. Jesus is Lord over my head. Jesus is Lord over my heart. Jesus is Lord over my blood. Jesus is Lord over my finances. Jesus is Lord over my household. Jesus is Lord over my children. Jesus is Lord over my grandchildren. Jesus is Lord over my parents. Jesus is Lord over my siblings. You keep claiming the name of Jesus over everything. Jesus says that's you're obligated. You're doing that out of love. Because you're doing it out of love. You're keeping my commandments. You're dwelling in me because you keep remembering to say his name. I will dwell with you. And by the way, where God is, where Jesus is, where the Holy Spirit is, sin cannot be. It cannot reside. It cannot be any powerful at all. It is dead. It dies. Sin goes. And therefore the consequences go as well which means aging slows down for us because we're spending more time with the Lord which means we have more strength in our bodies. We have more strength in our minds. You see understand the spiritual aspect and consequences and don't be limited by what I'm teaching either. Go to the Holy Spirit. Go to the father. Ask him to express show and explain to you what he's doing. because he will reveal it to you and he will teach it to you. And perhaps, who knows, you might have part of the teaching that the rest of the world is missing. All because you're obedient, keeping his commandments, getting it back to the cross, dwelling in him, and letting him dwell in you. that liberty that you get to have from sin, from sickness, from diseases, from financial destitution because that's how good our God is. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word. I pray that faith builds up in each and every one of our hearts and minds. Father God, I pray that we do not lose this teaching that it stays permanently in our minds where we're calling on the name of Jesus in everything that we do. But we're dwelling with you and you're dwelling with us because we love you. We do it yes out of a moral sense and obligation. But at the same time there is that empathic emotional love that is there that we say Lord Lord Lord Jesus you're Jesus over my skin. You're Jesus over my mind. You're Jesus over my heart. Oh Lord, I pray that this catches on, that there's a spirit of the name of Jesus that manifests in all of us and throughout the body of Christ, the church, and the kingdom of God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next teaching. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

MY FATHER, YOUR FATHER To reveal the profound truth that through Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, believers are given direct relationship with God as their Father. The message aims to encourage understanding of Jesus’ role as mediator, the unity of the Trinity, the believer’s identity as children of God, and the importance of forgiveness, faith, and walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. MY FATHER, YOUR FATHER Minister Lisa Kane April 11, 2024 Objective: To reveal the profound truth that through Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, believers are given direct relationship with God as their Father. The message aims to encourage understanding of Jesus’ role as mediator, the unity of the Trinity, the believer’s identity as children of God, and the importance of forgiveness, faith, and walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Synopsis: Lisa Kane delivers the teaching “My Father, Your Father” from John 20:17, highlighting Jesus’ first post-resurrection encounter with Mary Magdalene. In this pivotal moment, Jesus declares that He ascends to “My Father and your Father, My God and your God,” signifying the believer’s adoption into God’s family through His victory over death. Lisa explains the power of this revelation: Jesus, fully man and fully God, became the first resurrected body and opened the way for humanity to experience God as Father personally. The message explores how Jesus’ three days in the heart of the earth fulfilled prophecy, how He led the faithful of old from paradise into heaven, and how His resurrection shook history itself. Drawing from Paul’s words in Ephesians 4, Lisa teaches on the gifts Christ gave the church—apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers—designed to edify and unify the body of Christ. She emphasizes that true ministry must be rooted in forgiveness, love, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Finally, Lisa challenges listeners to recognize their calling, walk in unity, and extend forgiveness rather than judgment, for Christ Himself came not to condemn but to save. The message closes with an exhortation to pray for the church, leaders, and the world, living in the reality that Jesus’ Father is now our Father, and His God is now our God. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, April 11th, 2024. Welcome. This message is called My Father, Your Father. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you that your word does not return void. We thank you that the audience listening to this message have ears to hear and eyes to see, hearts and minds to receive and believe the living word of God and to apply this living word of God to their lives. That they walk in your anointing. They walk in your wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and they understand who the father is through this message. Father God, thank you Lord and thank you Jesus for showing us your word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scriptures. This is called my father, your father. We're going to start here in John 20:17. Jesus saith unto her, this is Mary Magdalene that he's talking to, touch me not, for I am not yet ascended. Or go up to my father, and that word father is means parent, but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your father and to my God and your God. And that word god there is deity. Wow. Okay. So let's put this into perspective. You have the the day that Jesus rose from the grave. So he is crucified and he's dead for three days. So the day he's going to raise from the dead, Mary Magdalene is there before the sun rises and she sees the stone is rolled away. So she runs off to tell Peter and John. They run back. They take a look and they leave. She's still there. Well, she looks in and she sees two men in white and she says, "Where is he?" And then when she looks behind her, there's someone that she thinks is the gardener. And he says, "You know, what are you doing, Mary? Why are you here?" And she's like, "Uh, I just tell me where he is so I can take his body. I will take that." And he says, "Mary?" And she realizes he is Raboni, teacher Jesus. And uh he says, you know, touch me not because I have not ascended yet. I I you got to see this. This is so incredible. He Okay. When Jesus came out of the graves, he came out all powerful. He came back to life. You go read Matthew, you will find that all these graves opened up. And on his way to see his father, he takes a stop. I got to go see Mary. I got to let her know everything's okay. I'm alive. And he tells her. Then he tells her to go tell the brethren, his disciples, and the followers, I'm alive. I will come see you shortly. I have to go to the father first. So he made a stop before he did anything else in his miraculous rising out of the grave. He did this. Stop. And he says to Mary, "Look, I ascend into my father and your father and to my God and your God." What Jesus did is he grabbed hold of Mary's uh Mary's hand and he's saying to every believer out there, "Hold hands with me because you're going to see my father who is now your father. My God who is now your God." Oh, hallelujah. I hope that you guys are getting this because it was so important that he decided to stop his ascension just to tell a woman and to tell a woman first. By the way, he chastises his disciples later for not believing. They didn't believe a woman, you know, and Jesus, this is why he went to a woman first. Anyways, I'll leave that in your mind as you think that through. But let's go to Ephesians 4:6-10. One God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all. Let's pause. So Jesus is saying, listen, I came to do what my father told me to do. He told me to lay down my life for you and that I would pick it up again. And he did such a thing. Then he's telling Paul is to Paul is telling you straight up look at we've got one God one father of all who is above all through all and in you all. So Jesus you know it is challenging to understand the trinity that there is God the father God the son and God the holy spirit. Three functions of a deity. And here is the most fascinating part. I hope you grab this. God is the father. He never came down to the earth. He Well, he may have came down there. I back up and and recre and correct myself that he's probably come down. But he didn't come down into his creation to die for his creation. He sent his son to do it. So now Jesus when he rose from the grave, he rose from the grave as a man with a new body. The first resurrected person with a first body. And he goes up to God in heaven as a man. He doesn't return back as a spirit. He returns back as a man who has been crucified, who died and rose from the grave. Now, God the Father can look in on us at any time. 200 years ago, 500 years in the future, if the Lord carries that long, he can do this because he's still spirit. He's outside of the creation. Jesus, who is the one who said, "Let there be light." He actually entered into his creation to fulfill the requirements of God the father which was he needed someone with no sin to die for others who have sin and every single one of us have fallen short of the glory of God. We were born into sin at the time of conception actually we are we become a sinner immediately. This is how this works. Well, in order to be saved, we needed a savior. And that is what Jesus did. So now Paul is teaching us that listen, God is Jesus saying, "Listen, here's my God." Because God is God to Jesus as well because he's a man. He's saying he's your God too and he's in you. And so Paul is reiterating it here. One God and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all. But every one of us is given grace according to measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he say when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. This is the function of what Jesus did because he ascended. He had to go there. We know because he told his disciples, I go to prepare a place for you. and he's there with his father preparing a place for you. In the meanwhile, he left us his comforter, but he was around for 40 days and and showed himself off to more than 500 people. This is how God worked. This is how Jesus worked in all this time and how they functioned together. So today, you and I have this. Now Paul's going to make an interesting point here. Let's go to verse 9. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended? first into the lower parts of the earth. He that descendeth is the same also that ascendeth up far above all heavens that he might fill all things. So the question then to ask is where did Jesus go for those three days cuz he didn't ascend up right away. He descended first. You see, every person who died before Jesus went to a place called paradise because the first fruit to enter heaven would have to be the perfect man. And nobody was perfect. So they would go to paradise if they believed in God and followed the ten commandments, the law. They met the law. They they repented before God and they had a relationship with the Lord. You can just see Old Testament believers and how they believed. You can go follow David. He's a perfect example of this. So others, they went straight to hell. But Jesus went straight into paradise and took these people out. And when you go read Matthew and all these graves, so let's say Aunt Martha passed away a week ago. You just had her funeral. You're sitting there in your kitchen having a bowl of something and come knocking on the door. Is Aunt Martha, I got to tell you about this guy named Jesus. He came down, he grabbed us, and he took us up out of the grave. And you're just standing there. I could just picture knees knocking, people fainting. This had to be such an extraordinary event that it has changed time altogether. The calendar change was made on his death. This is incredible. His birth and his death. This is such an impactful event. That is good news that we find out that there was a man who was perfect enough to redeem us and save us. This is the father. He he gives the glory to the father because all he's doing is obeying the father and the father says I'm well pleased with my son. Listen to him. So now we get to partner with him and be a partaker of whatever Jesus has. He says I forgive you. Come with me. You get to partake and share in this. Oh, how powerful it is. Let's go look at Matthew 12:39 and 40 to talk about those three days where Jesus was. But he answered and said unto them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales, or a huge fish belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So Jesus went three nights, three days into the heart of the earth. That's where he was. And so when you have a generation asking for a sign, well, how do we know Jesus was real? Well, when you go look at the testimonies that came out of the moment he rose from the grave, the stone is rolled away. They tried to deceive the people. But because so many dead people came out of the graves, these uh historians recorded these things. Josephus and others, they had recorded it and said, "This is what happened." And he packed it everywhere. And Jesus is saying to Martha or excuse me, to Mary, he's telling her, "Listen, this is my God. Now your God." And this is absolutely extraordinary that we get to partake in what Jesus has given for what he did. Cuz I couldn't do it. No, but he did. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. John 8:15-16. Ye judge after the flesh. I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true. For I am not alone, but I and the father that sent me. That word judge is to distinguish, decide, and condemn. Now, I want you to see something here. Jesus is saying, "I'm not here to condemn the world. I'm not here to judge you. I'm here to forgive you if you want to be forgiven." That's the simplicity as as simple as you can get for the gospel of Jesus. It is the good news that he came born of a virgin. He went to the cross of his own free will, was crucified, spent three days in paradise, and is shot up out of the grave, and said to the world, "I'm alive, and I'm coming back a second time. Do you believe?" This is the anointing of our Messiah, Christ, that he says, "Your God, my God, my father, your father." and he partakes with us in this. This is so powerful. I hope that you are seeing this and understanding he's not here to judge, which if you're going to partner with him, which means you don't judge either. You forgive cuz Jesus is all about forgiveness. That is the generation we are in right now. This is the time frame we are in now. We forgive. And I'm going tell you right now, not many people can. They struggle with it so much so that they end up get cancer, sicknesses, diseases, die early. Your life should be long and a blessing because you believe. But do you believe enough to forgive and to let go so that your father can forgive you? Oh, I hope that you do. Let's continue on. John 8:29 and 30. And he that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone. For I do always those things that please him, agreeable to him. As he spake these words, many believed or had faith on him. I want you to understand the moment that you believe and you grasp the heavenly father into your heart, Jesus into your heart, and you're forgiven, you are in the agreeable phase to please Jesus. The word agreeable there is to please God. Excuse me. So, you're pleasing God because you're doing the things. You're on the right path. The moment you align yourself with with Jesus, you partner together. He forgives you. You two hold hands. Guess what? The anointing you you walk into this relationship. You are pleasing God. And because you're pleasing God, because it takes faith to believe in Jesus, faith without works is dead. So, you're taking that faith, you're acting on it. Jesus, God is saying, "I am well pleased with you." This is how you move in the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and it's because you have faith. It is because you believe you're glorifying him. And it is so exciting to be able to realize that there is a person who shook the entire world when his blood hit the ground, caused an earthquake, an eclipse, the sun goes dark when he dies. But three days later, he comes out of the grave. And so the sign that everybody's looking for, he says, "I'm going to give you the sign of Jonah." Because Jonah didn't do what God asked him to do. Jonah ran. And so G uh God had to catch Jonah. So he caught him with a big fish. And when that fish swallowed him, several things happened to his body. His body, the acids were breaking down his body, his skin. He turned white washed. Um and he, you know, when he came back out, he was still alive and might not have been able to see, but he looked like a ghost to the people. So when he told Nineveh, "You need to be saved." Guess what? Nineveh repented because they thought there was a ghost telling them who who to believe in. They repented. And that's exactly the sign that he's giving to unbelievers today. Listen, the only sign you're going to get is that you saw Jonah go down and get swallowed by a great fish. And because we know of a person who got swallowed by a great fish back in um late 1800s, early 1900s, he was blind the rest of his life, but he came out and he survived it. But because of what it did to his skin and how he came out of it, this is why people believed. He survived. So when you are sharing the gospel, if you are to anyone, the good news is that Jesus pardon your sins. It's free. You get to be saved. They have the sign of Jonah. Jonah ran. Jesus didn't. Jesus was obedient. But then Jonah came and he did it angry, but he still pleased God because he still ended up doing it. There's like a two-tonone message in there, if you will. Amen. I hope you're grasping. This is an awesome message. John 14:6, Jesus sayeth the name, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but by me. So here, you can't get to God. You can't please God until you come through Jesus. You cannot come through Allah. You cannot come through any other means. You can't even go like the Philippines for resurrection day. This one guy they interviewed, he had been crucified 30 times all because of what his he believes that Jesus did. But unless he believes in Jesus, all that act is for nothing. Means nothing. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through him. Now, when you become a believer, what is it that you're going to want to do? You're going to want to please him. How do you please God? How are you in agreeable with God? What is it that God has called us to do? There are several ministries that we're called to do. Let's take a look at a few of them. Ephesians 4:11-16. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ. Now we are the body of Christ. We are part of the kingdom of God. Our hands should be laying on people and they should be healed. We should be casting out devils. We should be praying for our nation. We should be marching forward, praying for the finances of the world. We should be praying for our economy. We should be praying for Hollywood. We should be praying for all of these things. These ministries is what pushes us forward. Let's let's dive into this. I want to look at this a little bit more. They're apostles. Apostles, a delegate or an ambassador. Apostles typically will ratify a city and place a new church in that city and they will bring in a pastor for that church, but they won't stay. They travel. Look at what Paul did. Paul is an apostle of God. He traveled. He didn't stay at the church, but he established it. He also did signs and wonders because he prayed and cast out demons just like Jesus did. And what do we do? We partner with Jesus because my father is your father. My God is your God. And so we partner with him. Now ne not everybody's called to be an evangelist. However, we have I mean apostles, we have prophets, foretellers. Now prophecy is an interesting topic. It's a hot topic now um across many people. Here's the first important thing we need to remember about prophecy. All prophecy in the Bible has been written and established. So, for example, if you're prophesying that the end is coming, well, that's a true prophecy because the end is coming according to the Bible. We know that the signs around the end have not been fulfilled yet. That's a prophecy that hasn't been fulfilled. But if you're prophesying something to the effect like President Trump will win the election or something like that, I find it nowhere in the Bible that says President Trump will win the election. Even if you use Cyrus as an example and you call him Cyrus or whatever, it still doesn't say he wins an election. You see, when a prophet comes out and says something that is not biblical and not found in the word of God or it fits in the word of God, then you have to question that prophet or you need to pray for them. Don't judge them. Don't condemn them. Condemn them because that's what g Jesus doesn't do that. But he prays for them and this is where we need to be praying. But prophets are still part of ministry today. They just have to realize that the word has to come out of the Bible. We can see if you pro uh like for instance Damascus, the city of Damascus is going to be wiped off the face of the earth. You can prophesy that because it's a prophecy in the Bible that just hasn't been fulfilled yet. But you can call on it. These this is coming. Uh when Jesus says, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will not." It's coming. It's a prophecy that hasn't happened yet. You can prophesy. And the end is coming. We know it is. So if you're trying to do the green earth and save this earth as a lot of the leaders of the world are trying to do, I promise you that's against the Bible. This world is going to fall apart no matter what you do to it because it was prophesied that. But there's the office of prophecy. There's the office of evangelists. Evangelists are preachers of the gospel. They're going to teach the good news. They travel and they teach the good news. They're on the street corners. They're out there doing all that kind of teaching to bring people to the good news, to the redemption of what Jesus did and telling the world, "Hey, this is free. Look, you got this. It's yours. You just got to believe. Take a leap of faith." And you got all these people with all the false doctrines and the the ideologies that are in their heads that they don't understand something. Sometimes we have to just purge that out of our brains and just simply believe Jesus rose from the grave and pulled people out of the grave with him. This is all witness testimony at that time. I believe I hope that you do. If you don't want to believe that's between you and God work it out with him. He says come let us reason together in Isaiah. Then you have um pastors. Pastors are shepherds. They are going to lead their church in the direction of the Bible of what Jesus did. So they they're going to be the shepherd. They're going to be there at the hospital with you when you're suffering. They're going to come into your home and minister to you because that's what pastors do. It is very personal of a relationship between the pastor and the congregation. He will be there if you need him. That is what a pastor does. And then you have teachers or instructors. says something I do. I'm called to teach and preach the living word of God. And this is what I do. I break down the scriptures based on what the Holy Spirit reveals to me. And I teach it. Whether you hear it or not, I'm doing my part. This is the calling of Christ. And look what it does. It's for the perfecting which is a complete furnishing of the saints for the work of the ministry attendance service for the edifying or the architecture structure confirmation of the body of Christ. This is how we lay the body of Christ and the foundation. This is how it operates in whole. This is where we need to go because he's establishing the the five-fold ministry here. He's establishing there are gifts. There are other uh things that the um the Holy Spirit grants for the church. You have the gifts of speaking in tongues, interpreting tongues, prophesying and uh you have the gifts of um healing, administrative help. These all these gifts exist. There are different gifts. Sometimes just being at the door greeting someone, how are you? I love you. Welcome to the church. These are ministries of the church. They're all to edify the architecture of the body of Christ. So that we're walking on the foundation of what? The name of Jesus in which we are partnered with. And that his father is our father. His God is our God. Hallelujah. Look at verse 13. Till we all come in the unity oneness of the faith. Till we all get together in oneness. We're not there yet. That's been prophesied. That's a prophecy that we will unify. But we're not in unity right now. In fact, you can go back all the way to the days of the early church. Barnabas and Paul argued whether to take John Mark with him uh or not. Paul said, "Don't take him." Barnabas is like, "I strongly believe we need to take him." They had a falling out. Barnabas and John Mark went one way. Silas and Paul went the other way. They separated because of that. Just little things, little arguments like that will cause this division. It started in the early church. So, we're not in unity yet. But when we will be because we will be because we're going to finally grasp that we follow the anointing of the Holy Spirit that we walk in the living word of God and the word is being revealed to us because knowledge is growing greater today. And we will be in unity as Paul is prophesying here till we all come in the unity of the faith which is that persuasion credence and of the knowledge look at this recognition or full discernment of the son of God which is what I was just saying unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. So that body of Christ is going to meet that measure. We just haven't got there yet. We need to come in unity. What did Jesus do? He forgave. What do we like to do? Well, we're going to excommunicate or bye. We don't believe in the same thing. Get out of here. The the early church, the Catholic Church back in the 1300s, I'm reading Fox's book of martyrs, they got into an argument. I guess John Whitecliffe came out and says the Eucharist doesn't turn into the flesh of Jesus. It's still bread when you take it. where the Catholic Church was saying no it turns into the body of Christ and the wine turns into the blood of Jesus and you partake and you are taking the physical body of Christ and the physical blood you are drinking it literally and John Whitecliffe says no it's symbol but they disagreed so much that the Catholic Church was crucifying people or killing people for what they believed in and not letting the word of God persevere but for people like this and people John Whitecliffe and others who took the stand finally broke had to get the church out. This is why we have so many denominations today as a matter of fact because of revelation of the word coming to someone and it gets picked up and people believe. But at that time they actually killed people just over whether the eukarist was the actual flesh or not. It's amazing how a little thing like that can be caught up when you're trying to work the Holy Spirit. This is why you see churches fall apart and and partners suddenly hate each other because there's no agreement. There's no forgiveness. There's no letting go. There's no humbling. Whether you believe in your leader or not, if he's your pastor, you need to humble yourself. But go and make sure it's for the Lord and that he stands for the Lord if it's scriptural and you need to pray about it. You don't take the action. You let the Holy Spirit do his part. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. Verse 14. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slate. It's like a dice a cube dice of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive. That's the thing. So little things like this to step in. Uh there was another Peter that stepped into the Catholic Church and caused a lot of things like that Eucharist being thought of as the physical blood. But as the revelation got more revealed to people, they stood their ground and were martyed for it. That's the history that we have behind us. And look at us today. A lot of people, especially in third world countries, don't have the freedom to speak the gospel. Here in America, I I have the freedom to do it, but the doors are closing more and more because of offense. And that's what happens here. But this is why we need to pray and forgive and let the Holy Spirit do his job. I'm not here to do the Holy Spirit's job. All I'm called to do is teach and preach the word of God. Interpret it and put value into it and share it with you. What is your calling in your life? Let's continue on now in verse 15. But speaking the truth in love. Now if you go to 1 Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. First thing it says, if you talk uh of tongues of men and of angels but have no love, you sound like a clanging symbol. So he's bringing love back into the ministry. but speaking the truth and love. See, when you're upset with someone and you guys are arguing and you're gonna separate, sometimes you just need to love them and say, "I love you and we'll walk away from this and let it go. Let's just continue on and we'll move on to other areas and we'll leave this part. Let's just pray about it. Let it go. Let the Holy Spirit deal with it." That would be effective and that would bring more unity to the church. Something we lack. I, you know, we have a lot of um good teachers out there, good preachers, good evangelists out there who are talking about our government, talking about this that I've not heard one of them say, "Well, let's forgive him and pray for him." I haven't heard that yet, but that's what Jesus would preach and do if Jesus was talking today. Uh but speaking the truth in love, affection, benevolence, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joined together and united. That's what the word compacted there means. By that which every joint supply according to the effectual or efficiently working in the me measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto what? The edifying of itself in love, the construction of the body in love. This is where we're called to do what we're called to do as the body of Christ and as a living organism, as part of the kingdom of God, as part of the church. This is what I'm praying for. I'm praying for the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, the church. One, I forgive us. I have to forgive us because we all mess up. If you go read the seven letters to the seven churches in Revelation, you will find uh six out of the seven letters, Jesus says, "But I still have this against you." We We're not perfect. We're not God. What we do is we partner with Jesus, try to be Christlike. And that takes forgiveness. That takes having grace. That takes backing off from an argument even if you're right. Oh, I hope you guys are grasping this. You see, Jesus says, "I take you to my father who is your father, to my God who is your God." And he, remember, the father gave Jesus all authority to judge the earth. And Jesus says, "Well, I don't judge. I'm going to forgive." Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Oh, I hope you guys are grabbing this and that you walk in forgiveness. That you are praying for your pastors, your leaders, the leadership around the world, for our government, the leaders of the church. We need to be praying for the body of Christ. And I hope that is something that you guys are doing. And I encourage you to do it. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the anointing of your word. I pray that this word edifies one another and gets placed in our hearts that we have mercy and grace to pray forgiveness into the church into the body of Christ into the kingdom of God. And we are marching in the kingdom of God under the guidance of your Holy Spirit, the living word of God through your revelation, Father God. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

FULLY PERSUADED IN YOUR MIND The objective of this teaching is to encourage believers to develop a strong, unwavering faith rooted in God’s Word and to be fully persuaded in their minds concerning the truth of Scripture. It aims to show that while Christians may differ in personal convictions and levels of faith, we are called not to judge one another but to walk in love, humility, and prayer. By anchoring our thoughts and beliefs in God’s Word, we can overcome fear, grow spiritually, and live confidently in alignment with His will. FULLY PERSUADED IN YOUR MIND Minister Lisa Kane March 1, 2025 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to encourage believers to develop a strong, unwavering faith rooted in God’s Word and to be fully persuaded in their minds concerning the truth of Scripture. It aims to show that while Christians may differ in personal convictions and levels of faith, we are called not to judge one another but to walk in love, humility, and prayer. By anchoring our thoughts and beliefs in God’s Word, we can overcome fear, grow spiritually, and live confidently in alignment with His will. Synopsis: This teaching, based on Romans 14, explores what it means to be fully persuaded in your mind. It emphasizes that faith is both a heart and a mind issue, requiring believers to be confident and assured in what they believe, while also showing grace to others whose faith may be stronger or weaker in different areas. Examples from Scripture and real life—such as differing convictions about food, holy days, or health—illustrate how personal persuasion shapes behavior and outcomes. The message warns against judging others for their level of faith or their practices, reminding listeners that each believer ultimately belongs to the Lord and will give an account to Him. At its core, the teaching calls Christians to maturity: to hold firmly to their own convictions while respecting the journey of others, to pray rather than condemn, and to allow God to unify and strengthen His people. By being fully persuaded in our minds, we align our thoughts with God’s truth, experience greater peace, and live out our faith with confidence and love. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message on March 1st, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word that it does not return void. Thank you, Father God, for teaching us how to have faith and to te trust in your word and to know it in our mind to be fully persuaded by your word in the name of Jesus. To be confident in your strength and in what you can do, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Welcome. So glad you can join us now. Thank you for all of the kind words and support, prayer uh for as we grieve uh for the loss of my mom. Thank you guys for being with us. Uh the the flowers, the plants, and especially the prayers. Thank you. We really needed it. So, we are going to resume and I'm going to move forward with this new teaching. It is called Fully Persuaded in Your Mind. So let's go to our opening scripture. Romans 14:5. Uh, one man esteemth or decide one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded, completely assured in his own mind or intellect understanding. So when you look and see when I teach, you see the word in bold there. That word is the original word in the King James version that the the translators used when they translated from the original language into King James. When I put the word in parenthesis after it after it, it is another word that could have been used as a translation or I could add a lot more words just kind of give you full flavor of what we're looking at. So here, let's read that again. One man esteemth one day above another, another esteemth every day alike, and let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. So being fully persuaded in our own mind is what we're going to be talking about. We will be focusing here in Romans 14. And uh I want to my goal here is to teach you your faith that you can have in your mind as to what you stand for without judging others. Meaning, if you see them a little weaker than what you are, then let's not judge them. And if you think somebody is stronger than you are, then maybe that's the Holy Spirit speaking to you on what you can do with your faith. So, let's start here in Romans 14. We're going to start in verse one. Him that is weak. That word weak there uh could also mean feeble, disease, sick in the faith. Pause. weak in the faith. How many people, you know, I I consider myself a very strong person in faith. Uh but I see that there are others that are not. They're just not that strong. Um and I'll see pastors, preachers, you know, when COVID came about, I was like, "That thing ain't touching me." By the way, it did touch me. But after three rough days, the Lord, I mean, it was almost like it was instantly cleared. So, we're something it is it when you're dealing with uh sicknesses, it is a spiritual battle you're dealing with. But anyways, so I've seen preachers who are afraid of a sickness or disease. Not remembering Psalm 91 that a thousand would die to your left, 10,000 to your right. It won't touch you. But see, we walk in this fear and so we get weak in our mind. And this is what this chapter is talking about where it it's measuring all of us out comparatively to one another. It's interesting. Let's look at this. Says him that is weak in the faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputation. And so for example, uh it was a preacher I heard one time talking about being fearful of sicknesses and diseases and is a strong uh man of God in my personal opinion. And to find him at this level thinking that I I thought this was odd. Where's his faith? Because I know he has it and yet he didn't in that area. So now we have another component here. So, some of us could be very strong in some areas and some of us weaker in other areas. So, we're going to be talking about our mind in comparison and how to receive this person. So, when I saw that pastor weak in that area, what was my first reaction? One, I prayed for him. And two, I I I continue to listen to him. Why? because he's a good teacher of the word of God. You know, just because he's weak in that area doesn't mean I just need to shuck him out the window and be done. No. See, this is where we need to get a mindset that's a little different for um right now, Gathered 2025 is going on while I'm recording this here on March 1st. It started last night for those of you who have been watching and it's been um a round the world event of Christians. So, I watched a bit of it at my church last night and a gentleman came out, um, Mark Comr or something like that. But as he he starts speaking and and I'm looking at him and he's young, he's from Southern California. And so all of my judgment comes up and I said, "No, because here he is a man trying to teach the word of God." So again, I prayed for him. Does that mean I reject him? No. Now, if he was teaching something against what the Bible says, that's a different matter. But to we judge and that's what we do. We judge ourselves and measure us against all of these others. So, how do we deal with that? So, here he's saying, for one, verse two, for one believeth or have faith that he may eat all things, another who is weak eateth herbs. Oh my goodness, this is very interesting. So there's a culture back in the day of Paul and what it was is that the meat market would cut up the meat but they would take it to the temple and sacrifice it to the temple there. And so there are a lot of people are like you can't eat that meat. It was sacrificed to all these false gods. So Paul had to come in and talk about that and say, you know what, um he he tried he he wanted us all to know that we can be equal. And if there's a weak person in that area who is not believing to be able to eat that food, then you know he's saying you don't eat the food with him. You bring your measure to his level. This way you guys are on equal playing field. This way that person doesn't feel lost, rejected or maybe in a hypocritical type of situation. So here now what he's saying is okay I don't want you to receive these people to doubtful disputations. See there are different levels of faith. So some believe absolutely in vegetarianism. They only want to eat the herbs of the earth. They don't want to have any meats. But we see all kinds of fads and phenomenons that go on about food and diet and diet restrictions. Uh some people are like, "I just can't eat that. That will upset my stomach." Because in their mind they believe that to be true. What if that true that you believe the truth you believe can be overcome and changed? That's a very interesting question. Paul talks about it more detail. Let's let him continue and get it from the word of God. We're in verse three. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not. And let not him which eateth not judge, distinguish, or decide him that eateth. for God hath received him. He's taking that. He's taking both of you to himself. So, he's telling you, the reader, let's say you're the side that is strong on the meat side versus the vegetarian side. He's telling you, "Hey, don't judge him and reject him for what he's doing because I'm going to receive him to myself just like I receive you to myself." And you're sitting here like, "Wait a second here." Um wait what that that's so in other words uh Paul is saying there's an equality here in the end when we come into the presence of the Lord the Lord is going to bring us all to himself. We're going to see that here very shortly. Verse four. Who art thou that judges another man's servant? I want to pause there too. Servant. That person who's eating vegetarian is a servant of God. Well, you know, they may not be a believer today, let's say, and maybe they're rejecting God today. However, God has his eyes on him. He says, "I'm going to bring them to myself one day." So, yes, God has his vessels made, and that is not for us to to judge or condemn. He's telling us, you're to receive him as if he's work as servant for God, who he's going to receive for himself. This is where we start to mature up in our Christian walk because we're beginning to realize it doesn't matter because it all has to do with where we are in the mind. Now, I've done a teaching on the mind and I've done um and it's called the mind and you can go search for it and it deals with overcoming and working through the mind. Now this is just showing you what you believe in and how not to judge with others. So but being fully persuaded in your mind. See you might be fully persuaded I got to have meat if I don't have meat. Well let's use another analogy here I think is very applicable. Look at how many denominations there are in the Christian faith. Now you have Catholicism which takes they claim leadership as the Christian faith. So they take that. So then you have all of these subdivisions which is a denomination which is Assemblies of God, Calvary Chapel, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and so on. There are a lot. Which ones are right and which ones are wrong? You see, a Methodist will be fully persuaded in his mind, these are the commandments I need to follow. These came from scripture. This is what I stand on. The Baptist will be saying the same thing. And here's what the world is hearing though, and I really want you to catch this because I've talked about this in other teachings. The world hears, well, which one is right or wrong? And if you're standing there saying, hey, I got the best ones. you. I will make sure you get to heaven through through our denomination. Now, is that correct? Do we have the right to judge or condemn that? No. Because God is going to bring them to himself anyways. Which means the Holy Spirit is working in their lives. Let's continue on. And I said, "So who so and he's asking us, who are thou to judge another man's service? Who are you?" I mean, let let's come down to what do we believe in in our mind? And is it fully correct and right? This should be a great example for us to look at ourselves here because we may believe it to be true, but that doesn't mean it was true or accurate. Imagine being taught all these years, raised in a church, raised in a school, and they gave you all this information, and then you come back and you find out later about somebody or something that wasn't the way you were taught, which way is right. This is when you have to go to the Holy Spirit. This is when you have to say, "Okay, I need help, Lord, because I don't know who to believe in anymore. I don't know. I I had my trust in this. This was my truth. This was my foundation. This is what I believe in. He believes something different. Is it right? Is it wrong? What this ought to do to each and every one of us is convince us to go into the word and look at it more thoroughly and to ask the Holy Spirit, ask God, help us to understand this because yeah, who are we? We're definitely not the creator. And if you're somebody who thinks you've written so uh a study Bible even or you've done deep teachings, you don't know everything. And that's okay. Hey, none of us know everything. This is why who are we to judge? We shouldn't be judging. We should be accepting and just try to maintain the peace, which is what a Christian ought to be doing. So to his own master he standeth or falleth. You see, when we stand before God in our walk, some of us are going to fall, some of us are going to fail, but we get back up and we stand before Christ. Then there's some of us who it may take a lot longer to fall, but either way, we all have fallen short of the glory of God. We all have messed up, not just to people in our lives around in the world, but to our father in heaven. And that is when we have to come to realize, yeah, who am I? Should I be judging? No, I'm just a human little being with God living in my heart. Amen. And I should just be trusting in him. Which then comes back to what I've been standing on for years now. Pray for them and pray for yourself. Amen. Hallelujah. So he says to his own master he standeth their folly. Yeah. He shall be whole enough for God is able to make him stand. Did you see that? God is able to take care of them. So when you partner with God, because that's what Christianity is all about. You having a relationship with God, you start reading these scriptures and you start working in and diving in and you start finding out how can I deal with this, Lord? How can I fix this? What can be done? And he says start with you and pray for him or her. And this way God heals the differences between us. That's what this whole chapter is about is bringing a healing in. But realize who the healing is coming from. God. So it mean it means we have to humble ourselves to God. I I mean seriously uh I don't have all the answers. You know, our teaching here is a supplemental teaching for you to get from what you already get from your pastor in your own church and who you follow and listen to. We're hoping that by teaching you the word of God in depth uh from the perspective that the Lord has revealed to us that it would just open your eyes a little bit more. You see, you know a part, I know a part. And when we put our two parts together, we know a bigger part. We still don't know the full picture, though. So back to our opening scripture in verse five, one man decides one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. What that simply means is let's say today's my birthday. It's not, but I make today a good day because it's my birthday. Whereas another person, it doesn't care what holidays, what birthdays come up every day is the same for him or her. So he's saying whatever day he says let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. So if somebody doesn't want to celebrate birthdays, let them. If somebody doesn't want to celebrate holidays, let them. That's between them and God and they're fully persuaded. Another way to look at this, another analogy that I think is is very applicable is what do you believe in in the the sense, you know, like uh let's use the Hispanic culture, the Mexican culture to be more specific. They strong they strongly believe that when you go from a cold atmosphere to a hot atmosphere, you're going to get sick. And they do every time because they believe it. You know, there was a man who uh this was years ago in the news, and I don't have all the details, maybe you can Google it, but he he uh purposely went into the Arctic Ocean and swam there for 30 minutes. He did a mind over matter where his core temperature would not drop and it didn't and he was perfectly fine when he got out of it. There's a lot of people who teach on uh cold water immersion theories or whatever, but yet the Hispanic culture, excuse me, the Mexican culture, they're the ones who are absolutely saying, "No, no, you're going to get sick because that's what they believe in." But then you look at both and both are true. You'll see that happen with the Mexicans. They get sick. I used to work with several and when it got hot to cold back to hot, they always got sick because that's what they believed in. And yet you can have a mind over matter in a s because our mind is made this way. Think of it like this another analogy. There's a car accident and somebody's pinned and you know, hey, if I can just lift this vehicle up, they can get out of from being pinned. And so you just go and do it and you just can't figure out how you couldn't do it because you were in the heat of the moment. The adrenaline was flying or flowing through your body and you just knew that if you can lift that car and you did it like the woman with the issue of blood. She just knew that she can touch the hem of Jesus garment she would be healed. And he said your faith made you whole. This is being fully persuaded in your mind. Your mind is what's going to make a reality of your physical body. If you believe in veganism, you believe in eating all meat, you you believe, you will fall under the construct of that belief, whatever it may be. But if you're one of those who I'm not going to get sick, you won't get sick. Now, there are other things that go around on all of this, but where your mind is, you need to be fully persuaded in your mind. Read that again. Verse five. Oh, I already moved on. I'll go back. I think it's worth it. Let's go back. Says, "One man esteemth one day above another, another esteemth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." So when you take the scriptures and you want to believe in them, have the faith to believe them in them and ask God to help you with your unbelief. The centurion asked God one time to help him with his unbelief. That's how God works. And he's going to get you fully persuaded in your mind. You know, when I stepped away from all of the diabetic drugs and all that stuff before we moved here to Missouri, I taught on this. uh shared it before in other teachings. There were videos I was watching of all the stuff the Lord was bringing across my my social media feed um books with titles and I would read and I would be like wait a second is this true what the doctors are saying or not. So talking about cholesterol used to be that number 300 was good. I range about 236 but they wanted me under 200. Then they wanted me under 190, but then there's that side effect of dementia or Alzheimer's and then you find out your brain needs a coding of cholesterol. Anyways, as you go through the process of realizing the truth, you become fully persuaded in your mind. And that's exactly what happened to me. I'm being fully persuaded that no, those drugs are not for me. That's how God works in us. So to get out of it, you've got to go through your process so that you can walk in your faith and be fully persuaded. Verse six, he that regardeth which is exercising the mind or you're having an opinion which is my opinion is I don't agree with the cholesterol drugs because I've seen the other side and I know what it was doing to my own body and I would get dizzy from it and it was like no I and then they would tell me well you just can't stop taking and I'd be like well I did and I'm fine in fact I feel better now than I ever did because I became fully persuaded in my mind and there was nothing they can do to convince me otherwise. And by the way, I'm still feeling the best I've ever felt. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, for my healing. So, exercise my have an opinion the day. So, he that regarded that day regarded it unto the Lord. And he that regardeth not the day to the Lord, he didn't regard it to the Lord. He that eateth eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks. And he that eateth not to the Lord, he eateth not and giveth God thanks. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. So see when let's say blessing your food. I am a big big person on blessing food. I believe you got to bless the food. And to do it, by the way, to get myself into that new habit, it took some effort. There were days, I mean, I wrote notes, big notes, put it on my plate of food or right in front of it, mind me, bless the food because I had to learn a new habit because I did not grow up blessing the food. And I wanted to bless all my food because I believe that if I ate it and it was blessed, it's going to go through my stomach like it's supposed to. That's I'm fully persuaded by that. But look, there are many who don't bless their food and nothing happens to them because it hasn't come across that and and you haven't you know you're fine. Who am I to judge that person or who are you to judge me in blessing the food? And I'm telling you there were days I spit the food out because I realized I didn't pray. Had I seen this scripture, my my whole eating would be totally different. But you see, we live and we die to what we believe in. If you believe the doctors, you were given a bad um you know, my mom was given a cancer uh that she had cancer and here she just passed away. I have to wonder, had she just believed, see, who am I? Who am I? But I know that God is in control and that God took care of my mom and I know that he met her needs and that she was comforted. And you know what? She's home with him now. She's not suffering. Praise the Lord. Amen. Verse eight. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord. And whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lords. One of the things that really got me more onto this side was when Hamas had attacked Israel and the church I'm attending right now, they had a meeting, uh, a prayer meeting. We all met to pray. And there I am, very excited. Pray for Israel. Woohoo. and they wanted to pray for the terrorists, the Hamas terrorists. And I was like, and I've already taught on that before, but I remember coming home being convicted by the Holy Spirit. And it the thing that got me, God clearly telling me, I love them just as much as I love you. So, we are the Lord's, even the evil ones. Verse nine, for to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. How many of us are walking dead on this earth? Because we don't believe. And how many of us are walking alive in this world? Because we do believe. We all belong to the Lord. Verse 10. But why thou judge thy brother? Why thou said and not thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment or the bema tribunal seat of Christ. For it is written, as I live, sayeth the Lord, every knee shall bow or bend to me, and every tongue shall confess, agree fully to God. That is where it all comes out. That is the conclusion of the matter. It comes down to we belong to the Lord. We're all going to bow down to the Lord. We have to go through Christ. He says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through me. But if you decide not to do that, you're still going to bow because everybody bows before the Lord. Everybody is going to convince uh confess Jesus as Lord because that's the scriptures been prophesied. Verse 12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. I do not want anyone to trip or fail because of anything I say or believe. And I am hoping that you understand that when I teach something, I am teaching from faith that the Lord has revealed to me and I stand in that and I am blessed by that because I am fully persuaded by that in my mind. I do encourage you to get into the presence of the Lord and find out more about him and become fully persuaded as well because that is who our God is. He wants us to believe and believe to the full maturation of his word to that uh word to magnify and come out of us absolutely and totally so that in 1 John 5:20 and we know we're aware that the son of God has come and hath given us an understanding deep thought that we may know absolutely know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. And this is what I'm encourage encouraging everybody to do. Get right with God. Stand with him. And his teaching is let's not judge the others, but let's pray for them. And imagine taking your prayer life to a whole new level with Christ because he's calling you to do that so that you love them just as much as he loves them and you love yourself just as much as he loves you. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word, that your word does not return void. And I pray that in our hearts and minds that we decide to put that judgment aside and that we decide to pray for others, that we decide to pray for ourselves, that we decide to open the door for you to come in and change the way we think and do things. That you come in and that you make us help us understand that your word is true. make us help us understand. You know what I'm trying to say, Father God. And I thank you for what you're doing in our hearts and in our minds, helping us to stand strong in your faith and not uh hurt anyone or put a stumbling block in anyone, but that we are there fully persuaded that you are our God and whatever we do, we do in your name. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you and I will see you in the next message. Home Previous Next

EVE BORN AGAIN The objective of this teaching is to begin a new series on Women in the Bible by focusing on Eve, the first woman created by God, and to reveal how her creation, purpose, and role connect to the biblical truth of being born again. The lesson emphasizes the foundation of Genesis, the meaning of God’s image in male and female, and how this connects to Jesus’ ministry, crucifixion, and the birth of the Church through water and Spirit. EVE BORN AGAIN Minister Lisa Kane May 9, 2024 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to begin a new series on Women in the Bible by focusing on Eve, the first woman created by God, and to reveal how her creation, purpose, and role connect to the biblical truth of being born again. The lesson emphasizes the foundation of Genesis, the meaning of God’s image in male and female, and how this connects to Jesus’ ministry, crucifixion, and the birth of the Church through water and Spirit. Synopsis: In this message, Lisa Kane introduces the Women in the Bible series, starting with Eve as the mother of all living. Drawing from Genesis, she explains that Adam was created from the dust of the ground while Eve was formed from Adam’s rib, showing God’s design of unity, protection, and partnership between man and woman. This creation account also reflects the fullness of God’s image, represented in both male and female. Lisa then connects Eve’s story to the deeper spiritual truth of being born again. Using the imagery of physical birth—water and blood—she parallels it with Jesus’ words to Nicodemus about being born of water and the Spirit. Through Christ’s crucifixion, where His heel was bruised and His side pierced, the Church was birthed by blood and water, fulfilling God’s promise from Genesis. The teaching highlights how Eve’s creation, physical birth, and the union of man and woman serve as foreshadows of spiritual rebirth through Jesus Christ. It shows that believers, born again by water (the Word) and the Spirit, are called to live as one body in Christ, reflecting God’s image and carrying His kingdom into the world. The message closes by reminding men to cover and protect their wives, women to guard the inner parts of their husbands, and both to walk together as one flesh, empowered by the Spirit of God. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, May 9th, 20124. Let's open up in a word of prayer first today. Father God, we thank you for your word and we pray that your word does not return void. We pray that the audience who listens to this word has an open mind and heart to receive and believe in your word and to apply your word to their lives to have an understanding that you provide for us through your word. I pray that your holy spirit speaks to their hearts and minds through this message that you move me aside. Let your holy spirit speak through me and articulately and perfectly. Thank you, Father God, for your living word. We praise you and honor you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. I welcome each and every one of you. Today I'm going to begin a new series. I took last week off and uh we we had some celebrations of birthdays and family events and did some traveling there. So now I'm back and we're gonna begin a new series called Women in the Bible. Now men, don't jump ship yet. This is just as much for you as it is for women. Especially this particular first message that we're going to talk about. We're going to be starting with Eve. Now, I can teach on Eve at least three parts that I have just in the top of my head. But today, we're going to talk about Eve, and we're going to be talking about being born again. You're going to see the message of being born again from the very beginning to when Jesus was crucified to the time that we live today. Amen. So, this is an awesome word. So, let's begin. So, women of the Bible, this is the first message in that series and we're going to talk about Eve and we're going to be talking about being born again. We're going to start here in Genesis 1:27. Uh I'm in the King James version. So God created man or the word man there also means self in his own image. The word image there means to shade or be a phantom in the image of God plural gods. That's what this word god means. Created he him male and female created he them. So let's lay a little bit of foundation here so that you understand what's taking place here. So there are two books of the Bible that are attacked the most. Genesis and Revelation. Satan had attacked them so much that a lot of people don't believe in creation. A lot of people don't believe uh that the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. They they try to extrapulate what they believe science to be true and try to fit it or force it into the scriptures. The scriptures are very very clear. And um it it is really unfortunate to not have enough pastors and teachers and preachers doing apologetics in the book of Genesis and the book of Revelation. So I truly uh encourage you to check your teachings that you're listening to. Do you hear anyone teaching on Genesis or Revelation? If so, great. If not, you may need to supplement because you need to know the beginning. If you know the beginning, it's going to help you with today. And you're going to see that in this message is really incredible. So here we have Eve. She is the first woman of the Bible. She is the mother of all. So she is a created person just like Adam. The difference is that Adam was created of the earth and Eve was formed from the rib of a man. So let's go to the scripture. Now I before I dig into that, let's look at this deep part of this particular scriptures of what God is saying. He says created man self. This is God's self in us. Please understand that we're in his image. So his self is in us. Now look at how he did this. In his own image, in the image of God. He's multiple parts created. He him male and female. He created them. Listen, there's some revelation here. We know God as male and we see that he is represented as male throughout the entire scripture. So when you see gods or plural, we know that there is the godhead. God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. Yes, the word trinity is not in the Bible. But the word trinity means the godhead. And you can see the structure. It is biblical. It is in the word of God. So we know that God the father we you see him treated as a male. You know God the son that became Jesus that is male. He was born a man. So here you've got that representation. Now look what he says though. He says in the image of God created he him. Now there's something to that too because we're doing a transliter uh King James version does a transliteration of the original text. he him of the parts of he and him. But then look at what he says here next. Male and female created he them. So in other words, when he created Adam, Adam cannot be by himself. Adam cannot make life by himself. He cannot procreate without woman. So you have to have male and female in order to procreate and create life. If all men were by themselves in one generation, the earth would die. That's how this works. Same with all women. If you had all women, because you do not have that sperm to procreate life, the earth would die in one generation. So, male and female. Now, let's look at how God created the image, how they put together that fulfills the image of God because it is male and female and they were created differently. So, let's go look at that. So here Adam was created. Let's go to Genesis 2:7. And the Lord God formed through and the word formed there means through the squeezing into shape man of the dust. That word dust means earth or mud of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And man became a living soul. Existed as a living soul. That's how Adam was created. He was formed by the dirt, the earth, the mud and the ground. That's how God decided to make him. And then he breathed into his nostrils and he became alive in existence a soul, a living creature sensient. Okay. Now let's look at how Eve was made. So Genesis 2:21-24. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs. Now the word rib there means a part of or the side curved part of the body and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave loose in his father and his mother and shall cleave or cling adhere catch unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." Now let's look at this. So Adam was made from the dirt of the earth. So here's God and he makes Adam directly straight from the dirt of the earth. But instead of making woman from this uh dirt of the earth, he goes and puts man in his sleep and he takes one of the ribs. Notice he didn't take a piece of Adam's brain. So she is not equal in the head. He did not take a part of his foot. So she can be equal to his footing or his standing or he you know there's no dominion over or Adam dominion over Eve. There is no dominion because it wasn't taken by the feet either. Took it from the rib. What does the rib do? The rib cage encases all of our vital organs. So he took from the edge of it which is where it sits at the bottom left hand side under the heart. He takes that rib and he forms woman. What does that mean? Well, man can put his arm around woman and she could be tucked in here next to his heart. He covers her. He protects her and she protects him because of the rib that is what protects the vital parts. She protects him on the inside and they become one flesh. So when God looks at a married couple, he sees one individual, not two individuals. He sees male and female. And by the way, that completes the image of God because God is plural. So he embedded the pluraless into us, male and female. And then what do we get to do as a blessing? We get to procreate and have children and expand and populate the earth is what we have the privilege of doing. So Eve was made for this purpose and every woman since is made for this p purpose. Now, when we get into this series, you're going to see some women who fulfilled that purpose very well, and you're going to see some who did not. And hopefully, we can learn from their examples of what they did and and the impact that they had on generations after they were existed. Amen. That's why I want to do this series. Oh, it's so good. Now, let's go a little further here because let's talk about the birthing process here because I want to get into being born again and show you how Jesus works in this. So, when a woman ha gives birth, first comes the water. The water breaks, the baby comes. What comes second or the third after the baby is the placenta sack or the blood sack. This is the blood that fulfilled and u met all the needs of the embryo, the fetus, the child within the womb. So you have water and you have blood. Now where does Jesus come into this? Let's go to John 1:1 real quick. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. So when Jesus when if you read Genesis 1:1 and you see the spirit of God hovering over the waters of the earth, Jesus is the one who said, "Let there be light and there was life." Jesus is the one who created Adam. Jesus is the power that did all of this creation and he created Eve out of the rim. This is what Jesus did. Now, what is going on here? What is happening here? Because Jesus is demonstrating something in the creation of his image between male and female and procreating. So, let's look at a conversation that Jesus has in his time with Nicodemus. So, we're going to go to John 3 3-6. Jesus answered and said unto him, talking to Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born, procreate again, he cannot see or know the kingdom of God." Nicodemus sayaith unto him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit." Now remember the physical birth involved water and blood. Jesus is saying now I am going to tell you it needs to be water and the spirit to be born again. So how does this work? So the wa the living word of God is the water. And so when you immerse yourself into the living word of God, you become born again because you when you confess Jesus, Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. I've been teaching on this for a long time. So now what happens is he says you cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you're born with water and the spirit. What is the kingdom of God? What did Jesus do when he was walking in the on the earth? He was healing people, delivering people, saving people, letting the blind be seen. That is the kingdom of God. So if you want to go into ministry after you confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you cannot go into ministry until you are water baptized. Now the water comes in. And when Jesus came out of the water after he was baptized, the dove the spirit came upon him and immediately Jesus went into the wilderness, but he went into ministry right after that. That is what being born again of water and spirit means because the Lord calls us to ministry to be fruitful and multiply just like Eve and Adam were told to do. So there's a physical representation in the male and female as one flesh procreating and giving birth to what Jesus is talking about in the spirit uh 2,000 years later. Now what happens here? Now there's something that goes on. So Jesus who he got baptized, he came he he came out of the baptism. He went into ministry. He was then crucified. But let's talk about that going back into Genesis because I want you to see part of this crucifixion here in Genesis because this is awesome. This is revelation that I had not thought of before that the Lord is revealing. So when Satan was cursed, see when Adam and Eve failed, they they lost the blessing because they disobeyed God and they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Three curses were spoken. one was to Eve. This is why I said I can do more parts. I'm not going to talk about the curse on Eve today. Uh then there's a curse against Satan and there was a curse against the earth. So he did three full curses. Let's look at the part of the curse that he did to Satan because this deals with the crucifixion. Genesis 3:15. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. Now when Jesus when he was talking to Nicodemus and he was saying be born of water and spirit he was baptized. He came in and he went into ministry. But Jesus had a goal and that was to redeem all of us because he did not want to lose one of us. He needed to save us. When we are conceived today, we are conceived in sin. David clearly talks about that in the scriptures and in Psalms. So we are conceived in sin. So the Lord has to redeem us to get us out of that that sin. So what did Jesus do? He had to go to the cross. Now let's talk about being on the cross here for just a moment. Now they really don't know how Jesus was crucified per se. There are different uh ways to be crucified, different methods that they are familiar with. You can go study this on your own and check it out. I'm going to use the scripture here and just follow what the scripture is leading me on and we'll go from there. As for semantics of this, again, it's it's what you believe and you can ask the Lord to reveal this to you. So now let's picture Jesus on the cross here for a moment as he so in order to get Jesus on the cross. I don't believe that they put a ladder there and he climbs the ladder because anyone I mean Jesus might have done it. Anyone else I don't know about you but if they're going to try to kill me I'm going to fight to the end. Okay. And that is normal natural human nature right? uh Jesus is abnormal so he would go willingly but I don't think they had a cross there and that peop the men that were being crucified would be walking up there willingly so I think that they they bind their arms to the cross beam and so they are bound they can't really do much fighting but I mean fall and go limp and make the soldiers carry you and put you up there see that to me seems unreasonable so let's think about this in a reasonable matter let's say the horizontal beam is laid down and they have they lay you down and it's hard. You're not going to be able to get up after you're laid down because your arms are tied to this vertical beam. So, they have control over you at this point. So, they lay you down on that cross and then they pierce you with the nails. They put it into the hands or the wrists, whichever you want to believe in. They I guess they did some tests where if they did it in the hands, it would tear the body hanging. But remember, they probably had the ropes because they had to be bound to that vertical beam. So hands or wrist, that is up to you. The Bible talks about uh the wrist or excuse me, the hands here. And that's the word used. And uh maybe you can do a deeper study on that if you like. But here's what I do know is that they would raise the cross. And what the purpose of the cross was to do was to suffocate the person on the cross. You see, with your hands up here on the cross and your feet pierce to the the horizontal beam, when the nail pierces the feet or the foot, one or both, it pierces the heel. So Jesus heel is bruised on the cross. This takes the action of the cross back to the curse that God spoke to Satan at the time that Adam and Eve fell. So now you can see there's something that connects the two. We have to look at this in depth and see what the revelation is here. So if his heel is bruised, now understand what's happening here. There's a little piece of board or a platform that they put there for the feet and you can push up on that to lift you up because see they you're being pressed down you cannot breathe. You have to lift up yourself up to take a breath. When they pierce the foot the heel you are in so much pain when you lift you up. You have to let go. You take your breath you let go. So you relieve the pain in your heel so that you but now you can't breathe. So you have to keep going back and forth, back and forth. Now what happens is eventually you get tired and what happens is you're breathing less and less. Now your heart in the inner part of the ribs that is protected is now working double time, triple time, quadruple time. It is trying to get oxygen to the brain to the body. But this is the point of crucifixion. You are suffocating when you're up there. Well, as Jesus is dying, that blood is flowing. His heart is going. The the water separates from the blood. And so when the soldier pierces his body, he that blood and water flows. Now what? Let's look at the scripture to talk about how Jesus looked after he rose from the grave. I think this is very important because this tells you about the hands. This is why I lean towards the hands where the piercing took place. Now, it could have been the heel of the hands that would hold very well and it might very well be instead of the wrist. Who knows? But this is what the conversation that Thomas and Jesus had. Look at this. John 20 25. The other disciples therefore said unto him, talking to Thomas, "We have seen the Lord." But he said unto them, "Except I shall," this is Thomas talking, but he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." Now in verse 27, Jesus is talking to Thomas. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side. Look at the side, a rib, and be not faithless, but believing. You see the point of God taking from the rib and making woman out of the rib. He was pierced under the rib right there where the blood and water flowed to do what? For the spirit now, but he's in the flesh. So now you're talking about the fleshly church. The church is being born here on the cross by the water and the blood. And so now we have the church of God established today through what Jesus did in what he established when he made man in his image and completed because see Adam and Eve became one flesh and they birthed procreated life and children started coming out of them. Now Jesus came to the cross one flesh he birth. So himself and the church are together in the flesh as one flesh. Got to get this because see you understand look at the attack on the church today. We are still in the body. And what happens even though we're dead to uh uh sin, we're dead to these things, what happens is you're going to find people failing because we have an active adversary. The devil is constantly after us. He is constantly irritating us. So, we're going to lose self-control. These are the things we deal with. You see it in the pulpit. You see it in churches clashing. You see it in just doctrine. how there are so many different types of doctrine out there because we don't agree. But instead of disagre agreeing to disagree and walking in mercy and forgiveness and saying there could be truth to that or you know just being in love about the word of God and just showing the love and forgiveness, you see the active attack because we're still in the flesh. That's what Jesus did on the cross. Look at what the soldier did on John 19:34. But one of the soldiers with the spear pierced his side and forth with came there out blood and water. So there's a walking testimony here that the blood and water birthed the church. Now how is how is this to an individual being born again? Let's go to two people who were there to take the body of Jesus off the cross. Look at this. We're in John 19:38-40. And after this, Joseph of Arya, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the blood of Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrr and allows, but about a 100 pound weight. Then they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices as the manner of the Jews is to bury. So now what I want you to see here, this is where being born again for the individual is so powerful. Now this revelation came through my dad. And so I I want to give him acknowledgement. This is something the Lord showed to him. He shared this with me the other night. He's the one who suggested I talk about women in the Bible. But it's interesting he shared that talked about women in the Bible and then I received several confirmations to teach this message. So I talked to him and obtain permission to share this revelation with you. So watch this. So in order So now they got to take the body off the cross. Do you think the soldiers are going to climb up on a ladder and try to carry him down? You know that that's more work. And in all fairness, they were smarter than we think they were. We always think we're the smartest generation. And uh these guys knew what they were doing. They're able to bring that cross down with the body on it. How? I don't know. But they were able to do so because that is a reasonable assumption. Okay. So, they were able to they might have a mechanism where the c the vertical beam sits into the hole, but they can lift it out and it just lays back down. They've got ropes and they know all these mechanisms. They're not they're not dumb. Okay? So, please understand that. How you want to take this and how you want to do it is up to you. But they're able to bring it down. Which means this allows Joseph of Arya and Nicodemus to prep take the body off the cross and prepare it. So now you have to understand there's nails in Jesus. They have to remove these nails. So they're going to pound it out from behind and get the nails off. Well, one of them, Joseph of Arythea and Nicodemus or both have to get uh they have to grab Jesus' body. Jesus is dead. That body is dead. It's now like a sack of potatoes. So, they're going to have to put their head under the arm. Imagine Nicodemus putting his head under Jesus' left arm where the blood and the water flowed and he picks him up. They lay him down on the linen cloth. Now that blood and that water is on Nick Demas. That is how you become born again. Now remember that was the flesh. What happened at the day of Pentecost? The Holy Spirit showed up. Now we're baptized with water and the spirit and we enter into the kingdom of God to minister to those around us, sharing the good news, the gospel, the redemption of Christ, laying hands on the sick. You know, I remember working at the school many, many years ago and one of the teachers was in the break room and she had her head down on the the table. She she had a headache, a really bad one. So, I went and laid hands on her, not even thinking about it. I just did it and prayed. So, I walk back into the office and about 15 minutes later, she shows up says, "I just want you to know the headache is gone. Your prayer worked." That is how we operate in the ministry of the kingdom of God. Every time you go to a gas station, every time you go to a grocery store, you're showing the spirit of God through you to others because you walk in the water and the spirit of the word of God. And the water is the Bible, the living word of God. That is the water, the spoken words of Jesus that cover us, go through us, penetrate us, allowing the spirit to manifest through us so that we confess words of blessings, revival, repentance, restoration, reconciliation. This is how the glory of the Lord manifests through us. We're born again and we can tell the world we are born again because see they look at us and they go what's different about you? Because see they face death the same way you face death. But you understand as a believer in Christ that death is just another door to go into the next life with Jesus. And so we celebrate life when a passing takes place. Whereas we might grieve a little bit but we become above and beyond the grief because we miss them. We're a bit on the selfish side. we're going to miss him. But someone who is not of God are going to grieve and hurt so bad that they it's a very difficult time for them to come out of it. This is where we have to show them with Christ how much more they can believe and be at peace and joy. Even though we all suffer the same way, there's a big difference. And you can see this from the day Eve was created. You can see how this is impacted the world to this day. This is Jesus. He set it up from the very beginning. Now, women, we are to protect the inner parts of our man. And men, you are to cover your woman. And we're to manifest and walk in one flesh with the water and the spirit of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. We pray that your word does not return void. And we anoint your word. And your word is so powerful. It is your presence. It goes through. It ministers to us. Lord, we love you. We thank you. We honor you. And we worship you. We praise you. Lord, do not let us forget this word. Do not let the devil take this word out of our hearts and minds, but let us apply it and live it the way you designed us to be living, to live and to walk in this earth. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

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SPIRITUALLY MINDED The objective of this teaching is to guide believers in understanding the contrast between carnal thinking and spiritual thinking, based on Romans 8. It emphasizes the necessity of walking in the Spirit, overcoming the dictates of the flesh, and choosing spiritual truth as the foundation of life. The goal is to help listeners apply God’s Word in a practical way that leads to freedom, deliverance, peace, and life through Jesus Christ. SPIRITUALLY MINDED Minister Lisa Kane November 3, 2024 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to guide believers in understanding the contrast between carnal thinking and spiritual thinking, based on Romans 8. It emphasizes the necessity of walking in the Spirit, overcoming the dictates of the flesh, and choosing spiritual truth as the foundation of life. The goal is to help listeners apply God’s Word in a practical way that leads to freedom, deliverance, peace, and life through Jesus Christ. Synopsis: In this message, Spiritually Minded, Lisa Kane opens with Romans 8:6: “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” She teaches that carnality—living according to the body’s desires and natural inclinations—produces bondage, condemnation, and ultimately death. In contrast, living by the Spirit brings true freedom, peace, and eternal life. The teaching explains how faith in Jesus Christ removes condemnation and redeems us from the law of sin and death. Lisa stresses that believers must learn to recognize when they are walking in the flesh and intentionally choose to walk in the Spirit instead. Through fasting, prayer, and the confession of God’s Word, we discipline our bodies and align our minds with spiritual truth. Practical examples are given: rejecting fear when receiving a negative doctor’s report, declaring the authority of Jesus over sickness, anger, or depression, and relying on the Holy Spirit to replace destructive emotions with love, peace, and joy. Deliverance is described as a process of shifting thought patterns from fleshly responses to spiritual responses, allowing the Holy Spirit to purge strongholds and fill believers with God’s presence. Ultimately, Lisa teaches that being spiritually minded means allowing God’s Spirit to dwell in us, transform our thinking, and manifest the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Walking in the Spirit pleases God, empowers believers to overcome sin and death, and positions us as heirs and joint-heirs with Christ. The message closes with encouragement to live daily in spiritual awareness, choosing life and peace through Jesus, and allowing His light to shine within us as we prepare for eternity with Him. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I am Lisa Kan. I'm recording this teaching on Sunday, November 3rd, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we lift you up. We bless you, honor you, and worship you. You are faithful and true. You are mighty and glorious. You are full of loving kindness and mercy and grace. Thank you. We pray and ask that your word does not return void. We pray that the listeners have been prepared by your Holy Spirit to hear your word. I pray that our minds are open to receive your word. That we believe and apply and act on your word and live by your word. That we choose spiritually the decisions ahead of us. Not the physical, not the carnal, but the spiritual decisions with you, Father God. For the spiritual reality is true and strong. This is temporary. Spiritual is permanent. And Lord, we lift you up and look forward to being in spirit with you in the name of Jesus. You are mighty and holy and we thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Welcome. Glad you can join us. I'm teaching a teaching called spiritually minded. Let's go to our opening scripture here and look in Romans 8:6. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. So, what I do when I teach, if you are new to this type of teaching, I'm going to show you the scriptures here on the screen. I'm using the King James version. The words in the bolded color are the words in the King James version. The ones in parenthesis are other words that that word means through the Hebrews and Greek Strong dictionary. So you can go look up those words if you have the Strong's concordance and you can see these words are listed in the the original language. So in other words, the authors could have translated it with those words but chose not to. They use the words in bold. So, I believe that when you see these other words um that you're you're seeing the entire meaning of that scripture and it comes to life because you're getting the full um meaning behind what the original text meant for us to believe and learn in. Amen. So, let's read it again with the extra words now. So instead of carnally, so for to be external body minded, meaning everything that's on the outside of your body is what drives you. Your physical body drives your mind. You're hungry, you go eat. Things of that nature. That's what being carnally minded is. Look at this. For to be carnally minded, external minded, by the way, is inclination or purpose. So you have a purpose. You're purpose. You're hungry. So you're purposely going to go eat because it's driving you to do that. Watch this. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. So, we're talking about being spiritually minded. For life and peace, and that word peace there, um, is prosperity, quietness, rest. You know, you can have all the money in the world, but you could be suffering big time. So I want to teach us here today how to be spiritually minded, how to overcome carnal thinking so that we are driven by the Holy Spirit and not by what our bodies want. Amen. So we're in Romans chapter 8. So if you have your Bibles, we're going to be focusing in that whole most of that whole chapter there. So Romans 8, let's read verses 1 and two. There is therefore now no condemnation. That word condemnation is adverse sentence. You don't have uh the sentence is against you. Uh you have a verdict. The verdict is found guilty. However, no condemnation means the verdict has been reversed. There is therefore now no condemnation to th them which are in Christ Jesus. I'm going to pause here. If you are listening to this teaching and you want to be spiritually minded, you have to believe in Jesus Christ. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it. That's the reality of it. There is no other way. You know, there are many people who believe and teach that there all these ways get to God. Well, I asked them this question. And if I give you the address to my house and you go in the opposite direction, will you get to my house? No. So always don't get to heaven. So you do need to believe in Jesus Christ. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. So understand that you need to believe in Jesus Christ first. Very important. And he's telling you this here. There is therefore now no condemnation to the to them which are in Christ Jesus. Because see, when you believe in Christ Jesus, you've been pardoned. Redeemed. That's what the word redeemed means, pardon from your sins. The guilty verdict. You've been pardoned. It's like the governor pardon pardoning a sinner in prison and he lets him go at the end of his term. He decides to let these guys go. Presidents do that when they're leaving their terms. They pardon all these people. Well, Jesus did it for anyone who wants to believe. Amen. So, that's straight up right there. As plain as you can get it. There is now no verdict, no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. So now, as a believer in Christ, you're required to walk by the spirit and not by the flesh. Yet, many will go back by the flesh. It's what we know. It's what we've been taught. That's what we do. But he's telling us you need to be spiritually minded. You need to be walking by the spirit, not by the flesh. How do we do that? And he's telling you first, you need to be a believer in Christ. And then if you are walking with Christ, then you should not be walking with the flesh. You should be walking after the spirit. Look at verse two. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. It liberates you from the law of sin and death. See, when you're a sinner, they're consequences. Consequence to sin is death. Romans 6:23 says, "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of life is God." So, every time you're sinning, you're supposed to be dying. But look what it says here in verse two. It says you're free from the law of sin and death. Wait a minute. I don't have to die. And what death is, I love how Paul says it. He says, "Oh death, oh death, where is your sting?" He knows that absent from the body is present with the Lord. That is awesome. So, we're free from the law of sin and death because we are following the law of Christ. And and Christ is supernatural. He walked through walls. He walked on water. He rose from the grave. They touched the holes in his hands and in his feet. He is alive. Which means when we face death and death tries to take us like it did Jesus. And it it may well it may well do that unless the rapture happens in our lifetime. death takes us. But guess what? We rise from that and we're no longer subject to permanent death. And that's what that is. So Jesus died. He was in the grave for three days, but three days later he was up out of that grave, including a whole bunch of graves around him. You can go read Matthew on that and it'll show you that. Let's go to verse five. For they that are after the flesh. So we're still talking about carnally minded uh instead of uh spiritually minded. So there's a decision that we have to make. He says, "For they that are after the flesh," you're deciding on the flesh. "Do mind the things of the flesh." Just pause there. "Do mind the things of the flesh." Your flesh gets hungry, what do you do? You go and eat. So why do we have to fast? Now remember, when Jesus was casting out demons and his disciples couldn't cast out a particular kind, the disciples asked, "Why couldn't we cast them out?" Cuz see, they knew they were supposed to. They knew they should have, but they couldn't. So Jesus says, "Well, this kind takes fasting and prayer." Meaning their disciples hadn't been fasting. So if you're struggling with casting out a demon, you need to fast. Why? Because you're choosing spiritual realm. You're forcing the hunger in your body to come down. You're telling your body, you're not in control. I choose to believe in the spiritual realm. That's what being carnally minded is. There's also other applications. For example, you get a doctor's report. The doctor tells you uh you have cancer. You can say, "No, I don't." No matter what the doctor's report is, you say, "No, I'm going to go to the Lord and he's going to take care of that because the Lord Jesus is over that cancer." Romans 10:9 again, that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. You say, "Lord Jesus, you are over this cancer. I'm not going to die of cancer. In fact, I don't even have to worry about it." You want to know why I don't have to worry about it? Because God won't take me home till he wants me to get home. So, if I need to live with that all the way till the days he takes me, then that's the way it is. But I promise you, you will have peace and quietness in your soul, in your body. You won't be suffering. You won't be in pain because you declare Jesus over it. You're choosing to be spiritually minded versus carnally minded. Let's continue on in verse five here. But they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit. So that's what I just explained. If you're going to choose to believe the doctor's report, then you are believing in the flesh. And yet you're a believer in Christ. And if you believe that Jesus rose from the grave, then you believe you're going to rise from the grave. That means you're not filled with sickness and it will not hold you down. Yes, it could be that that sickness goes away after you die. But I promise you, if you are calling on the name of Jesus now, you are planting the seed and you are preparing your body to no longer have that in it. And some people it will be uh an instantaneous miraculous healing. Some people it may take a few days, some people may take a few months, but you will get healed the moment you declare Jesus Lord over it. And how? Because you believe that Jesus has rose from the grave. How do you do that? I'm calling on Jesus and I can't see him, but his name is so powerful and he may be in heaven preparing a place for me and you, but guess what? He gave us his name. He gave us the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is required to move when you declare the name of Jesus because it is scriptural and it is truth and it has to move. You have to understand the law of spiritual spiritual reality. You see, that's more real than this. So, when you get spiritually minded, you're saying, I'm going to apply Jesus, his name, and the Holy Spirit is required to go move forward in the name of Jesus. This is scriptural. So, to be spiritually minded is to be in the scriptures. I hope you're catching this. Let's continue on. Verse six. To be carnally minded is death. So, he's very clearly telling you you're going to die if you're going to continue to believe whatever the doctor's telling you or whatever you're feeling. You know, oh yeah, I'm feeling like I got something in my stomach and it ain't going away. And you've been dealing with it for months, maybe even years. This is when you say because you keep believing that. You're being carnally minded. You're thinking in the back of your head, you got something there and you know it's bad. You don't even want to go to the doctor because you know it's bad. You don't even have to think that way. Choose to change the thinking pattern of your mind. Choose your mind and shift it to say, you know what? So what? I do feel this, Lord. But I'm declaring you, Lord Jesus, over it, and I'm asking that you take care of it because it's not mine anymore. This body belongs to you. It's your holy temple. You see, you start applying the scriptures to it. You start applying the spirituality, being spiritually minded to it. things start happening. So for to be carnally minded is death. To be spiritually minded is life and peace. This is our opening scripture. I want you to notice something here. Um we are talking about deliverance. To be spiritually, look at this. It means current of air, the rational soul, the vital principle, your mental disposition or the superhuman minded part of your life. There's a guy back in many years ago and I haven't looked him up so I I don't know who I can't remember his name but he's a guy that swam in the Arctic Ocean for 30 minutes and they got him out and he was fine. His internal temperature never dropped. Mind over matter. And a lot of people believe in this. Now many are weak minded. But here's the key. The moment you say the name of Jesus, no matter how weak-minded you are, whether you have zero faith or even just amount smaller than a mustard seed, which is very small, that little amount is all you need for the spirit, the Holy Spirit to move. Now, what does this also mean? When you're doing this, you declare the Lord Jesus, you are talking, you are moving the air around you. Let's talk about the air for a minute. Let's talk about being spiritual. Spirit is air. It's something you can't see. You know it's there. You know when people say, "Well, like scientists, if I can't see it, I ain't going to believe it." Yet, you know that if you go in a room and you remove all the oxygen from the room, what happens to the any life in there? It dies. Anything that needs oxygen, it dies. Fire hydrogen systems in buildings, that's what they do. they deprive the room of oxygen and the fire goes out. So when to be spiritually minded is to let that air current of air flow through us. So when you're dealing with deliverance and you're delivering somebody, you're you're trying to get them to think differently. You're trying to get them to think not on the physical manifestation of anger, hate, depression, whatever it may be. You're saying, "Let's shift your change of thinking. Let's let's change your thinking. Let's shift it over." You're going from talking about the flesh because it's physically there. You know it. You see it. I'm always angry. I'm always hateful. I'm always bitter. I'm always jealous. Uh I'm I'm feeling depressed. You have all of those spiritual attributes. So you want to shift that thinking to say Lord Jesus I declare you over my anger. I declare you Lord Jesus over my whatever you name it. You declare it over cancer. You declare it over depression. You declare it over a hate, anger, jealousy, bitterness because you do not want to be like that. You want to be spiritually minded. And what happens is because there's a physical thing holding on to you, even though it's spiritual, it leaves your body. When you do deliverance and you're in the deliverance ministry, you are aware of exorcisms. Well, there's different variations of exorcisms. Sometimes if you just started dealing with depression and you've only been dealing with it for like a week or two or three weeks, you're you might just sneeze it out. That's a burst of air leaving your body. You might cough it out, flatulate it out. That is a spirit of ver of air leaving your body. That is the manifestation of these things. Now sometimes if like you were uh born um and your parents dedicated you to Satan when you decide you know the Lord works in you and gets you changed and you start getting rid of that stuff you're manifesting and it is just you're just trying to burst it out. Well, you are going through a heavy manifestation. Those demons don't want to leave you. They've got claws in you and you got to rip them out and it will be a burst of air that is so strong. Uh it you have dry heaves. You you won't see actual vomit per se. I mean some people are sensitive so maybe they will but those that aren't it's just a burst of air coming out of you and it's you're getting rid of it. You're purging it. That's good. Let it out and then stand up and let the Holy Spirit in. You got to ask the Holy Spirit to replace that hate and anger. Say, "I ask you, Holy Spirit, to fill me with your love and joy, your peace, because I'm declaring you, Lord Jesus, over my body, and I choose to walk in peace." You choose to be spiritually minded. You choose to walk with the Holy Spirit walking through your body. That's what this is all about. That's what being filled or being spiritually minded is about is letting go of the flesh and choosing to walk in the spirit. That doesn't make any sense. How could you just simply say Jesus is Lord over this? Because Romans 10:9 tells us which the Bible is truth and Jesus went to the cross as the son of God and he took sin on and he dealt with it then. So since sin has already been dealt with, you declare him Lord Jesus over your life. Then you declare him Lord Jesus over your insides and you choose to be spiritually minded. You're declaring his redemption over you. And then the fruits of the spirit begin to manifest in you. You start to have that love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control because you're walking in a spiritually minded, firmed, foundational type of word in the word of God, the name of Jesus. He's our foundation. He's our strength. He's our glory. And we breathe and live through him. Because every time we choose that, we choose to be more spiritual because this world, this life is temporary, but there's a life after. Oh, and when we get there, that's where heaven is and we're going to be there. So, we're already practicing it here and now. We're putting our flesh down and we're letting our spirit stand. Amen. Being spiritually minded. Let's go to verse seven. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God. Let's stop. So our physical body is constantly fighting with God. Enmity. Let's look at that word. It means hostility. We're hostile with God. Our flesh tells us, "I'm in pain. I'm suffering. I'm hungry. I need this." But the moment you take control spiritually, you tell your hungry body, listen, you're fasting right now. You will deal with it. You will get food later on. And your body has to submit to it. You have a headache. Your body has to submit to the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is what rules your body. So you're not in that enmity, the hostility. Remember Genesis when the fall of man occurred, the curse of enmity was there between the woman and God. So that it's hostility. We're constantly fighting with God. And it's we don't want to be that. We don't want to fight against God. See, to fight against God, you're not in the word of God. You're doing things your own way. You're being disobedient. It makes sense in here. But that's not what we're to do. We're to make sense in the word. Let the word be our foundation and our strength. Amen. Let's continue on. For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. See the body cannot reflexively be obedient to God. It it eventually you will have to feed your body. You can subject subject it to hunger 1 day, 3 days, 17 days, whatever number of days you can fast 40 days eventually and I think the 40 days is the limit. you have to feed it food and water and you are very weak at that point but in the flesh but spiritually if you've ever gone on a fast let me tell you my longest was 17 days and um let me just simply say you become extremely aware and I use that very passively but extremely aware of things on the other side that's going on around You truly do. It's incredible, too. So, you're becoming spiritually minded, spiritually aware. You're becoming aware that sicknesses doesn't have to rule your body. You're becoming aware that you don't have to be subject to sin because you've been set free and redeemed and pardoned by our mighty savior Jesus. You become aware and your mind walks in that manner. It walks in the name of Jesus. It's no longer subject to the flesh and what the flesh is telling it to do. Somebody cuts you off. What's the first thing your body wants to do? Whether you're in a line at an amusement park or whether you're driving in a car, somebody cuts you off. You think that's not fair. I'm right here. your flesh rises up. But to be spiritually minded, back off. Let them in. Big difference. How do you get that? That's through self-control. That's walking with the fruits of the Holy Spirit. You're letting the fruit of the Holy Spirit begin to manifest in you. Amen. Verse eight. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. And there's the simple truth of it. To be obedient and to please God is to walk spiritually. Faith without works is dead. You cannot take a leap of faith if you cannot believe that there is a Jesus and he rose from the grave. It is a very simple matter of fact. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through him. So to be obedient, you have to get rid of flesh thinking, stinking thinking. And what you have to do is allow the Holy Spirit to manifest and let the fruits of the spirit uh build up in you. Verse nine, but you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If so, be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Dwell in you. You're allowing Jesus to be a part of your life. You spend time. Here we go. Dwelling this now. We're allowing Jesus to dwell within us. It's a two-way street here. I've been preaching about dwelling in the secret place with the Lord for years now. Psalm 91, you take the time where you set up a private moment between you and God. Whether it's your desk, in your bed, in your closet, in your car, you open up the Bible, you read, you pray, you have a two-way dialogue. Well, look at here. To be spiritually minded is to allow God into the chambers of your being. You have four chambers in your heart. You have your mind. You're allowing God to be every part of your body spiritually. And because he is light, what happens is the light shines on the inside. Darkness has to flee, which means all boils, cancerous things. They're exposed. They're exposed to light. And the light kills them, dissolves them, destroys those things. And you live because you're pleasing God. So God turns everything around that is death to life. Death put Jesus in the grave, but his life came right back up. We had that same promise. So we're facing death in the future, whether it is through the rapture or whether it is something else. All we know though is that three days later or whenever it may be, Paul says, absent from the body, present with the Lord, instantaneously you're in the presence of God spiritually and you get a new body out of it. Oh, this is awesome. Verse 10. And if Christ being you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. The body is dead already. And because the body is dead, you're died to this life. This is why you can go up in the rapture. If the rapture happens in our lifetime, we're entitled because Hebrews 9:27 says, "Everyone's appointed to die once." Well, guess what? We don't have to because we are already dying to our flesh because we choose to be spiritually minded, not carnally minded. Hallelujah. And then but the spirit is life because of righteousness because God has declared us righteous because we're being obedient. We're walking with him. We are walking in that right standing with God. We become righteous. And we're obedient. We're thinking righteous. We're thinking God first. We're putting God first. for applying his word. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. He has good thoughts for me. My future is established because he's made it for me. He knows me. He has a book written of me. He is my God, my shepherd. By his stripes, I was healed. All of these scriptures are appliable to your life. You get to keep quoting them because now you stand in the promises that he has given you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Verse 13. For ye if for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if you but if ye through the spirit do mortify or put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. In other words, put the spirit ahead of the body and you're going to live. The body is decaying. It's going to eventually die anyways. We don't want this body. We want the new one that's coming. This one is messed up. But you know what? You can declare the Lord Jesus over it. And what happens is he restores it and it is all redeemed. And that means that sin, sickness, disease, whatever, bye. You tell it bye. Goodbye. I don't want to see you ever again. Because you have the authority and the right to name the name of Jesus over whatever is within you. Amen. Verse 14. For as many are as are led by the spirit. They're driven by the spirit of God. They are the sons of God. And what does that mean? That means you're a joint heir with God. Oh, verse 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, aba, father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children, than heirs, heirs of God and joint hes with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Jesus says, "We will do greater things than even he did." When he stopped to speak to Mary Magdalene on the way up to heaven with all that billions of souls behind him, he said, "I go to my father, your father. I go to my God, your God." Oh, that's incredible. He elevated us to be joint hes with him. Which means that if the demons had to be subject to his name, they are still subject to his name. And we get to use his name in whatever situation we can declare the name of Jesus. And the demons have to have to listen. And the better part of it all is he Jesus says, don't just rejoice in the fact that the demons do what you say. Rejoice in the fact that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life. That you get to choose to live when you're spiritually minded versus carnally minded. Put the body down, but declare the name of Jesus over the body. You're choosing spiritual mindedness. Think, move your thinking from, "Oh, this hurts to," okay, Lord Jesus, I know this hurts, but I'm declaring the name of Jesus because I'm done dealing with it. You shift the way you think. That is what deliverance is all about my friend. Move your spiritual thinking. Move it or from carnally thinking to spiritual thinking. Let the spiritual thinking be your rock and your foundation so that you may live in prosperity, quiet, peaceful life. Oh hallelujah. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. Help us to walk in your word. Help us to apply the name of Jesus to whatever situation we're facing. Help us to choose spiritually mindedness versus carnally minded us mindedness. Help us to walk in the spirit and not in the flesh. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 6 Equip listeners to see how the entire Bible converges in Revelation, strengthening faith amid cultural pushback; explain God’s redemptive timeline (from the dispensations through Daniel’s 70 weeks to the Tribulation); and urge believers to trust God’s daily mercy, live with the mind of Christ, and proclaim the gospel while there is time. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 6 Pastor Marcos Marrero June 7, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to see how the entire Bible converges in Revelation, strengthening faith amid cultural pushback; explain God’s redemptive timeline (from the dispensations through Daniel’s 70 weeks to the Tribulation); and urge believers to trust God’s daily mercy, live with the mind of Christ, and proclaim the gospel while there is time. Synopsis: The message opens in praise and prayer, anchoring hope in Lamentations 3:22–23—God’s mercies are new every morning. We thank God for adoption, sealing by the Spirit, and the commission to take the gospel to all nations. The speaker frames Revelation as the capstone where the preceding 65 books find fulfillment, arguing its coherence across 1,500 years of inspiration and encouraging confidence in Scripture despite modern skepticism. A sweeping overview of dispensations follows: Innocence (Adam and Eve) → Conscience (post-Fall self-awareness and the battle between God’s word and the serpent’s lies) → widespread corruption leading to the Flood at year 1,656 from Adam. Human Government begins at ~1,657 (Noahic covenant), continues to today, and will be judged when the “kingdoms of this world” become Christ’s. Promise (Abraham ~year 2000) establishes an eternal, twofold covenant (physical and spiritual seed). Law (Moses ~year 2500) given at Sinai; still awaiting judgment. Grace/Church Age (Christ at ~year 4000; Pentecost) fulfills Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and inaugurates global gospel mission. The sermon contrasts the fallen human mind—at enmity with God—with the mind of Christ given to believers, illustrated by a dream showing supernatural peace in the face of death. Babel and Nimrod exemplify rebellion; today’s global systems (language/technology) foreshadow end-time centralization. Daniel 9’s “70 weeks” is unpacked: 490 years are decreed for Israel and Jerusalem. After 483 years “Messiah is cut off,” creating a pause in which grace goes to the nations. The final 7 years resume when Antichrist confirms a covenant: First half (1,260 days): Two Witnesses minister with miraculous authority; trumpet judgments include a five-month demonic torment and a massive mortality event; this period culminates in their martyrdom and the abomination of desolation. A brief midpoint pause is noted (their bodies lie unburied ~3.5 days), aligning time markers. Second half (1,290 days + 45 days): Great Tribulation against Israel escalates; days are “shortened for the elect.” Post-Tribulation, a 45-day window completes judgments of the nations. Satan is bound for the Millennium, ending open transgression and inaugurating righteousness. The message ties prophetic timing to Sabbaths and Jubilees (Israel’s failure to give the land rest; the Church at the 120th Jubilee), to the fall festivals (trumpets/Rosh Hashanah as the day of gathering), and to the covenant with David (explaining a period of “desolation” with no earthly representative after the Two Witnesses, during which an angel proclaims the everlasting gospel from the sky; Rev 14). Revelation 10’s seven thunders are sealed, underscoring that God withholds some details so people won’t postpone repentance. Throughout, believers are urged to reject the accuser’s voice and believe God’s verdict of righteousness in Christ, to rest in His mercy each morning, and to be doers of the Word. The sermon closes with prayer, inviting hearers to belong to Jesus now—sealed for the day of redemption and spared from the coming wrath. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. How many are glad you know Jesus? Amen. You know, one thing about Jesus, he's so full of mercy. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. It says uh I think in Lamentation 3:23 or 22 that his mercies are new every morning. [Music] Sometimes I go to sleep and say, "Oh man, I'm glad this day is over. Then I wake up in the morning and praise God, it's a new beginning." I tell you, so glad to have a a God that has put the past behind his back as far as the east is from the west and we can come to him every morning, brand new day. I got a brand new opportunity to start every morning when I wake up. Every single one of us does. No matter how bad it got yesterday or how bad it got today, we're as close to heaven as our knees are to the floor. Hallelujah. Our knees hit the floor and immediately he's there. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we thank you for this opportunity to come together as a family tonight and to worship you, Father God. For you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You have given Jesus a name that is above every name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Of things in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the waters below. We thank you that we have the spirit of uh adoption, that we have been sealed with the spirit of promise, Father God, and that we're waiting for the redemption of our bodies to take place. But meanwhile, we have been commissioned to proclaim the gospel to every creature. Wherever the there's breath, wherever there's air, let us proclaim that precious gospel, Father God, from all the ways to Thailand, all the way to South America, all the way to the north and to the south and to the east and to the west. Let this gospel of the kingdom be proclaimed, Father God. and let the anointing of the Holy Spirit back it up, Father God, so that people will know that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, that he loves them and that they will repent and come to him. Bless uh tonight, Fred and Tony Harour and Vision for Women Ministries and the family that worships and fellowships here, Father God. And as we get together now to partake of your bread, the word of life, we ask, Father God, like Fred said, that you would bind any hindrances, any spirit that will somehow keep us from hearing. We pray that you bind it. And we ask by the spirit of grace that you grant us ears to hear that you open our hearts to understand and that you anoint now the words by the god that the spirit that the holy spirit will bring forth that we may be able to learn from them and be fed and nourished and transformed that we may be doers of the word and not just hearers only in Jesus name we love you lord. Amen. Praise God. But as you notice, I got you a couple of uh pages that are note and always when I start, I start try to give a rundown to keep things into context because you have to understand that the book of Revelation is where everything is completed. So here you have 65 books of the Bible. Okay? and everything that's been written on those 65 books of the Bible has to find a fulfillment in that 22 chapters that we have in in the book of revelation. So uh my faith when I began to understand the book of revelation was just so tremendously uplifted because I know that the Bible was written in the span of 1500 years from the first time that Moses wrote uh uh and Job was written like 1500 years before Christ to the gospels and that big span of time and so many different writers and to have all of uh come together so precisely in in the book that proclaims to be the end of God. My faith just shut up because you know we face our our our um what we believe is being challenged every day. You listen to music, your faith is being challenged. You watch TV, your faith is being challenged. You know, uh you speak in tongues, they think you're crazy. You know, you believe the word of God. We believe that actually the earth was created 6,000 years ago. A man, you're stupid. You're radical. You're all these things. So, we are being challenged. And you know, all I simply do is when I see some uh dumb dumb uh talking head on TV saying, "How could you know this be like that?" I said, "Well, you know what? I'm I'm old. I'm I was born in 47. I challenge any of those guys to take their books that they had in school in the 1950s and get the theories that they were teaching over there and look at the books that they have now and they totally change. Everything they said back then was proven wrong. They have some new theories now. And I can take my Bible and tell them, guess what? It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. And the more and the more that they study and dig into it, the more they're finding out. You know, God said that when he made man, he took dirt out of the ground. Lo and behold, they come to find out that we're dirt. All of the chemicals that form our body are found in the dirt. You know, you just mix it with 80% 90% water and guess what? You have a body. So, this is what's so exciting about the book of Revelation. So I I try I'm trying to get you to to so that at least you can see it coming together if for anything more than to establish your faith. Because if I can believe that everything that Moses wrote is coming, you know, 2500 years ago is coming to pass right now. I know that Moses saw ahead of time what was coming, was able to write about it. Then I can trust what he says. You know, they make a big thing about this Nostradamus guy, some guy that lived 500 years ago because he makes certain prophecies and riddles and stuff like that. John in Revelation says that a mark of the beast that every single person in the world will have to receive a mark and that without that mark you can buy or sell. This would never ever make sense until the computer age came into being. And yet you never hear them talking about that. Why? Because if if that is right, then Jesus coming soon is right as well. They don't want to hear that part. So they will tell you right talking about Nostradamus, some uh uh uh uh I don't know what he was into, but it had to do a lot with divination. Let's put it this way. Some guy that pe into the darkness and saw a few things. I'd rather get the guy that went up to heaven and saw the one that was sitting in heaven and saw the lamb of God and got it directly from the God and said, "Write this." And told him, "Don't write this." So that's why I'm trying to to kind of give you a sense of what is going. Now the two pages are like a review because last week we got into the first half of what is called the tribulation period or the wrath of God. And I want to show you how that comes about because a lot of times we that teach in in in things of revelation take it for granted that everybody else knows. So when we say the 70th week of Daniel or the seven last years, a lot of people that are new to Christianity or have never studied uh prophecy may not know it. So in your dispensational charge, innocence, and I know I put paradise on there, I corrected on mine, but innocence was where the first dispensation. Adam and Eve were innocent and they were in paradise. And that was the beginning of time. There was no evolution. Men didn't come from a soupy thing or whatever. God just simply made an earth and then he took the dirt of the earth. He blew his breath into it. The spirit of God enter into a a a physical thing and the body became a human soul. Conscience is when Adam became self-aware. It's very important that we understand this because when Adam became self-aware, their faith was challenged. Their faith was challenged because a third party, in this case the snake or the serpent or the devil comes in and say, "Don't you guys know that you're naked? You know, here you think you're looking real cool and then somebody comes in all of a sudden tells you, you know, hey, you know, your hair or you're messed up or whatever, then all of a sudden you man, all your confidence just crumble." So they were told that they were naked. And of course, what God intended was that men would say, "Yeah, I am naked." But God says I am good. And as long as God says I'm good, I'm good. I don't care what you say. God says the standard, not the devil. And believe it or not, that's the circumstance we're in now. God says we're the righteousness of God of Christ Jesus. And yet I can guarantee that every single day the devil talks to each every one of us and say you're nothing but a lousy loser or this or that or the other. And we have to make a choice. And that choice is do I believe God or do I believe the devil? Thank God for a man like Joshua who said as for me in my house we will serve the Lord. We want to believe what the word of God says. And because of that I can stand up every morning. I don't care how messed up I messed up. I can get up every morning and said God says I'm good and as long as I hear you say otherwise Jesus I'm going to believe you and not going to believe the rest of it. So he became self-aware. And so because of that, now this period of time, innocent, nobody knows how long innocent lasted. When Adam and Eve were created and were in the garden and name all of the animals and everything, there's no time reference on that because this is a time that they spent with God. So time really began when uh men became self-aware. As men became self-aware, their conscience, the Bible says by the time we get to Noah in in Revelation, I mean in Genesis chapter 6, that men's conscience were so polluted that men's thoughts were constantly evil all the time. In other words, the consciences of men were seared up so bad that h God had to destroy everything that had the breath of life in it. this happened. And and this is important that you see this this calendar because I'm not counting by our years that we count here. I want you to see it from God's calendar from the beginning of time from from the time that Adam was created. And you can add it up. I added it up and a bunch of people added it up. We all come up with the same thing. 1,656 years. 1,656 years after Adam was created, God destroyed the world. He brought a worldwide flood that covered the entire earth and everything that had the breath of life was destroyed except for Adam, his wife, I mean Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Eight people were on the ark. This happened on the year 1,656 from the time that Adam was created. Now, we know that it'll only rain for a day, for 40 days and 49. They were actually on the ark about a year. So the from the time that they were drifting until they landed and all of that, they were in the ark a year. So they came out of the ark in the year 1,657. At that time, God had to reestablish the covenant. Remember, God is the God of covenant. Every dispensation that God makes has laws. For Adam and Eve in conscience, their law was you can eat of anything you want to. You can do whatever you want to. You can do cartwheels. live, serve, whatever you want to do, you do it. Just stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That was the only law that applied to them and it only applied to those two people. Uh over here in the in in in conscience, what applied was uh the word of God versus the word of Satan because that's the heritage that Adam and Eve gave to their children. They partake of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil. So they um passed to us this conscience that we're battling all the time, good and evil, having to go with good and evil. We know that Enoch, who was the seventh from Adam, was a preacher of righteousness. We know that Noah also was a preacher of righteousness. So they had the word of God preached in those days but it got so bad that the people's consciences were seared and so God judge conscience. He says men's conscience from now on cannot be trusted. This is why the Bible says that your mind is at war with God. For us believer Paul makes this point in Romans chapter uh through many of the chapters chapter 7 chapter 8 he says our mind is enmity with God. It's at war with God. So you say, "How can we be saved?" The mind of Christ. When you get born again, the spirit of God comes into you. And now you have the mind of Christ. You're able to reason by virtue of the word of God. I can say, "I am what God says." And I can tell Satan, "Shut up." When he tells me I'm not. They may still be a battle, but I have peace. And I have peace with God. As a matter of fact, I had a dream last night. It was so weird. I'm not going to tell you the the four dreams that, but in one, I was in a plane. And it was weird. There was like one of those old planes where you're sitting with your back to the uh the side and there were people sitting on the front and uh there was a group of of men in the plane I think and I don't know we're going to a mission or whatever but it was had to do with church and as I'm going the plane is banking to land and we're just having a good time and then all of a sudden something happened the plane something went wrong with the plane and it flipped and as it flipped started going head first into the ground. I mean, this is a such a vivid dream. I mean, it's just so incredible. And as I'm going, I know this is it. And I just raise up my hands and began to worship the Lord and thank him. And I'm saying, man, I'm going to see you in just like I I know the plane was just about to crash, but I was just getting excited. I'm going to see Jesus. Then all of a sudden, he was able to level the plane and they landed. I said, "Man, I can't believe that." And I said to myself, uh, how could I even dream that being so sure that I was going to die? But even in my dream, I was so sure I was about to see Jesus. Why? Because that's the mind of Christ. See, the old mind, the doubting mind, that mind has been superimposed by the word of God and by me trusting and believing what the word of God said. So it has become part of me. Hallelujah. That even and and I believe that if that were to happen, that's exactly how we react. Why? because that's that's what is in my spirit. So then conscience was judged. Innocence was judged. Men can never go back to innocent. Conscience was judged at the end of 1,656 years. And then the human government started on the year 1,657. Noah came out. He took two of every paris except for the clean animals. The clean animals that could be offered a sacrifice. He took seven. So what does Noah does? He brings a clean animal is offer he offers a sacrifice to God. God smells the sweet offering of the sacrifice and he enter into a covenant with Noah. So now we have what is called the dispensation of human government. Human government started in the year 1,657 from the time that Adam was created and has never ended yet. This is why we have government because the the government of man is still here. If you remember, God said to Noah, have your children spread all over the earth and cover the whole earth. A guy rises up whose name is Nimrod, who was the son of Kush. Kush. Kush means confusion. He's pretty confused guy. He raises up his own. He goes into rebellion and they say, "We don't want to be scattered and nobody will know who we are. We want to make a name for ourselves. So he builds up a tower. This tower has the physical and spiritual meaning. The spiritual meaning is they're opening the the gates to self which is what the tree of knowledge of good and evil is. Self made self manmade knowledge it to worship that and he allows a whole bunch of demons in. Now God did not judge them. Horses with chariots of fire didn't come from heaven and judge these people that rebelled. No, God confused their language and forced them to scatter because you go to a group and they don't understand, you don't understand them. You get frustrated. So, you go to another. Finally, you find somebody you can talk to and that's who you go with. And this is where the people that went to Africa and the people that went to Asia and Europe and the people that came to America, they all scatter because that's what God has told them to do with. But God has not deal with that yet. So here we have a dispensation of manmade governments that Jesus is going to judge. Why is he going to judge? Because he's king of king and lord of lord. All government has to answer to him. Okay. Why is this important? Because the judgment of what the bible calls in revelation the kingdoms of this world are now the kingdoms of our lord is going to happen during this seven-year period. So I want you to see this. Now Jesus said one of the spiritual principles that Jesus taught is that the first shall be last and the last shall be first. Meaning this is the first dispensation that hasn't been judged yet will be judged last. When is the kingdoms of this world going to be judged? They are going to be judged in the second half of the wrath of God. The first half is 1,260 days. You have five days in between. And the second half is 1,290 days, which by the way is 7 years. 2555 days. At the end of 2555 days, the seven years exactly, God is going to begin the judgment of the kingdoms of this world. At that time, the head of the kingdoms of the world is going to be the antichrist. And he's going to mount an army with huge amounts of men to try to fight the Lord when he's coming. The Bible tells us, and when we get to this part of it, we'll see it, that this judgment of God is going to take place in 42 days. Daniel 12:11 tells you this, for uh 1,290 days. And they said, "Blessed is he who waits for and makes it to the 1,335 days." That means after the 2,290 days, God has 45 days. 42 days, that's seven time six. That means seven Sabbaths or seven weeks with beginning of a Sabbath and the end of the Sabbath, God is going to judge the kingdoms of this world. So before God can judge the kingdoms of this world, he has to bring the kingdoms of this world together. That's what we're experiencing today in our generation. For the first time since the days of Nimro when everybody spoke the same language, men from every nation on the world, I think there's 180 some nations in the world now. they can go into the United Nations and whoever the head of state is or whoever the representative is can go ahead and speak and every other member that's over there with their earphones on can hear everything that person is saying because the United Nations has an army of interpreters of every language that there is more than that we're living in a time to where you can have a body on the internet in China he doesn't know a thing of English and you don't don't know anything or Chinese, your computer can translate for you and you can type whatever you want to. It's translated to Chinese. He can send it back to you. And that is going on today. We're living in the day to when God is bringing the the kingdoms of this world into a time. That's why it's so important to see that. Then since man could not save himself in innocence and in conscience and in government, God introduced the promise. God took uh this guy named Abraham. Abraham was born and I have added the numbers and everything is locked up in in my garage so I couldn't have access so I'm going by memory which thank God is still pretty good. Abraham was born somewhere in 1990 1995. So I round it off to the year 2000. Abraham was born and and you'll see it at the bottom. I put it for you so you can have a graphic in your mind of the uh Bible timeline. Abraham was born around the year 2000 when he was about 70 years old. That's why I put there 2007 and these are approximate time except for the 1656. That was a set time. You can actually count the years from Adam to the time that the flood took place. But God calls his men named Abraham out of where Iraq is today. He calls him out into where Israel is today. And God enters into a covenant with this man. the covenant with of promise. Now the promise of God are eternal. The Bible says that the word of God is forever settled in heaven. I think Psalm 119 uh the word of God is forever settle in heaven. So when God gives you a promise is eternal because God is not bound by time. He's saying yesterday, today and forever. So if he promised you something today, it's just as good forever. So when God introduced the promise to Abraham, it was a two-fold promise. He says, "Out of your seed, I'm going to bring sand of the seashore." That's a physical promise. And as numerous as the stars in the sky, that is a key for a spiritual promise. So out of Abraham comes law and grace. Now the promise of God in the covenant was given about the year 2017. Now you read Paul in Romans and he says that we are joint hes with Abraham. We're part when he's discussing Israel and I think it's Romans 9:101 11 that area there he's discussing Israel and the church he says we're part of it because the promise was given to the man of faith Abraham. See when the woman that wasn't a Jew had a child that was demonp possessed and brings it to Jesus. Jesus says I can't heal him. God call me to the house of Israel first. So the woman says, "Yeah, but even the dogs get to eat the crumbs that fall out of the the table that the children the the bread the children's bread that falls out of the table." See, what she did is she bypassed Moses the law and she reached all the way to Abraham. Abraham is a man of faith. So when she says, "Yeah, I know that that you're coming to fulfill the law and that you're giving the bread to the children of Israel, but according to Abraham, I'm an heir, too, and I can partake of that bread." And Jesus said, "Your faith got you what you wanted." See, faith elevates above law or grace. Why? Because faith comes through Abraham, the man of faith, the friend of God. That's the covenant. That's the covenant that God honors. Even Noah, I mean, even Noah and Adam, when they went into paradise, they were under Abraham. Abraham is the one that was in charge of paradise. Why? Because paradise was a holding place until the true blood was shed. And who's the one that believe that? Abraham. And how did he believe that? He took three animals. He took two birds. He cut them on half. And he kept the verse of pray. And when evening came, God came like a torch and it passed through it. Back in the days of of of of Bible days, you enter into a covenant with a person. You took an animal. You cut the animal in half. You split the parts. It was a bloody mess in the middle. You would hold the hand of the person you were entering into a covenant with. And you walk through the blood and you say, "May the same thing happened to me if I don't keep my word." And your shoes got all bloody. That was a testimony. You have entered into a covenant. Well, Abraham didn't walk in there. This covenant was God who made it. He's the one that walked between the pieces. And he says, and and you know, did you know that the the the animals each represent a dispensation of time? There were three animals, uh, a goat, uh, a bull, and a ram. And they were cut in half. One, two, three, four, five, six. Each one of them represented the six years. Then you have a bird on each side, a fleshling bird and a dog. And the bird, remember, the kingdom is represented as an eagle. So that tells you the the first bird indicated the beginning of man in the spirit and the ending of man after the rapture he goes into the kingdom. So God was making a covenant for the whole 7,000 years when he enter into that. So we're part of the covenant that God made with Abraham. Now out of Abraham came the law. The law came first. And so the law came through Moses about 430 years after Abraham the year 2070. You add 430 years to 2070 and you come to about the year 2500. Like I said these are are all approximate numbers about 2500. This is 1500 years before Jesus Christ because remember now they count the time backwards. That's why it's easier for me to count it forward. From the time that Adam was created to the time that God entered into a covenant with Moses or revealed the law to Moses was two 2500 years. Now in the law God said to Moses tell the Israelites to purify themselves because in three days I'm going to come and show myself to them. They all purify themselves. God actually descends. This is not in physical body in his glory. He comes God covered himself in darkness like a huge dark cloud. This cloud came in and rested on Mount Si. Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and to this burn up. The whole top is burned up. The Saudi Arabians know what happened there. So they have a big fence. There's many Christians try to sneak in there. They go to jail and everything because that's that is the place where God descended. See when they cross the Red Sea, they cross it from that big channel where where um Saudi Arabia is the Gulf of Aquabad. I I don't remember what they call that part there, but I mean this is no junky little thing. This thing is a huge place and they have a video to where their share wheels and everything down there. They came up with with a more they went back and and redid it again and got more pictures. I just got advertisement on it. So anyway, God comes into the mountain is thundering and shaking so bad. Moses says, "My knees are trembling." And the people say to Moses, "You know what? We can't handle this, God. We're going to go away. You talk to God and whatever God tells you, we'll do." And so that's how the covenant of the law came. Now, the covenant of law started in the year 2500. And the covenant law has not been judged yet. So the jud the law will be judged in the middle of the tribulation or in the day of of atonement. We'll get to that in a minute. So here remember we're talking about the last seven years. The last seven years 2555 days. That's seven years. At the end of the 200 2555 days, the kingdoms of this world are going to be judged. Then Jesus Christ is going to come and set up this kingdom of a thousand years. In the middle of it, after the 1,260 days, the first half, the law is going to be judged. We talked about this last week when we said that first for the first five months, the first war, which is the sixth trumpet, uh God releases all of the demons that are in hell into the earth. And people are tormented for five months. Five whole month they cannot die. Nobody can die at that time. But so that humans will know that hell is real. God does that. Then at the end of the five months, God releases the four angels that are bound to the river Euphrates. And they will kill onethird of all of the humans that are at that time. And this is fulfilled at the end of the 1,260th day. That's when the two witnesses are killed. That is a day of atonement for the Jews. So that means that law is going to be judged in the middle of this dispensation. Now the other thing that got introduced was grace. Grace begins with the word of God. The promise when the promise the word of God became flesh in the wood of in the womb of the woman. He was born. He lived fulfilled the law. He died our sacrificial death which is the Passover as the lamb of God. Remember when John saw him, John says, "Behold the lamb of God that takes the sin of the world." The sin of the world was represented by the feast of unleaven bread. And uh the Jews follow a lunar calendar and their year begins in March uh or April depending on their calendar. This is why Passover is different all the time. the 14th day of the first Jewish month which is a full moon because the 28 day cycle the full is moon the moon is full at the 14th day on the 14th day you're to celebrate the Passover in the evening it says as evening begins on the 15th day you are to celebrate the feast of unleaven bread and then on the Sunday after the next the first day of the week after the Sabbath you are supposed to celebrate the feast of first fruit. This is in Leviticus 23 if you want reference. So here we see that in grace, the dispensation of grace, the sixth dispensation, God fulfills all of this. Jesus is the word that became flesh in the seat of the woman, fulfilled the law, died the sacrificial death on the day of Passover as the lamb of God. That evening when they put his body before the sunset, remember the the the rich guy, Joseph, the rich guy came in and said, "We don't want to leave the bodies there." Pilate gave him permission. They took the body of Jesus, stopped it in the tomb before the sun said. That is when uh the feast of unleaven bread began. Jesus is the broken the body the bread that was broken for us to take away sin. This is what communion mean. The broken body when you take it takes away your sin away. He took away the sin of the world at that time by becoming our leaven bread. Then on the third day which will be uh Saturday night as Sunday begins in the evening. He rose up. He's the first born from the dead, the first fruit, the first human that is complete like God intended. He is totally physical yet totally spiritual because the spirit of God lives in him. That means he can walk through walls. He can take this physical body and disassemble every atom and walk through there because if you know air fills most of everything. You know they discover now you can magnify to the tiniest tiniest tin. Everything no matter how hard it is has air in between. Things are just hold together. Atoms are held together by some kind of a glue or whatever. And so Jesus can actually deotize his body and walk through walls. He can think I'm going I want to be in the moon and he can be there. You in the spirit you travel at the speed of thought. So this is what Jesus did. He rose up and and became our first fruit. Then he comes up shows himself to his disciples after appearing in the room where everything locked and says here fill me. A a ghost doesn't have a body like I have. You can feel it. And then he says, "Now you go preach the gospel to of the kingdom to the whole world, but first go to Jerusalem and wait until you're do endued with power." So 50 days later, 50 is 7* 7 which is 49. And then the 50th is the jubilee. The Holy Spirit comes and it falls upon the church. Now, we taught that when the sixth seal takes place, there's earthquakes and there's all kinds of things. That is the fulfillment of the second part of the promise that Peter read on the day of Pentecost when the church was filled with power because he said, "Your men and your sons and your daughters, they will prophesy. They will see vision. They will dream dreams." And all of that was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. But he keeps quoting Joel and he says, "And there will be h a clouds and billows of smoke and there will be signs on the earth on the heaven above and on the earth beneath and all of the things going to happen when before the great day of the Lord and everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." So we can see now that Pentecost is the key pin that ties the first fruits or the first lot the the former reign as the Bible calls the first coming of Jesus to the latter reign the second coming of Jesus. So when the trumpet blows after the sixth seal is open and we can see in in in in Revelation chapter 7, people from every tribe and from every kindred and from every in there that is the fulfillment of the promise of God on when on the day of the blowing of trumpets or in the new year. See, because the Jews don't celebrate New Year's on the first day of their year, which is March or April. God says you work for six months, the seventh month, the first day of the seventh month. That is your new year. Why? Because that's when you enter into your rest. That is when you enter into your rest. So the Jews blow the trumpet, the chauffeur, on the first day of the seventh month. Guess what? The sixth chapter, the sixth seal, the 6,000 year, six, six, everything is six there. So, it takes you to the day of rest. So, the church then is rapture first. That's why Jesus says, "The first shall be last and the last shall be first." So, when the church is taken away, the seven years begin in the middle of the seven years, God is in and the age of and the age of grace concludes at the time. By the way, the age of grace will last 2,000 years because, as you can see, grace came in uh about 4,000 years after the creation of Adam. It it began Jesus was born on the on the on the beginning or on the end of the 4,000 years, the beginning of the fifth. And if you look at Genesis, that's when the physical sun was created. If you look at it in the creation, it says that there was light. Before the sun was created, there was light on the first day. There was light on the second day. There was light on the third day and the sun was created on the fourth day. This is why many people say, "Oh, the Bible, t Home Previous Next